RE: YAC Proposal

When I asked Osama about this, his immediate concern was about response headers as well.  We cap incoming headers at 16KB (both individual size and total header set) by default, with config options to increase those as far as 64KB and 16MB if the administrator wants.  But we have no code that checks the size of response headers – we let the client discard the response if they don’t like it.

That led to how we would deal with an app that tried to send something that used to be valid and now isn’t.

From: Roberto Peon [mailto:grmocg@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 5:43 PM
To: Jason Greene
Cc: Nicholas Hurley; K.Morgan@iaea.org; IETF HTTP WG
Subject: Re: YAC Proposal

I wonder how many servers don't. I don't know of any major servers with such a cap, but I'm surely in the dark.
Do we know how many place a cap on the size of response headers?

If just about everything supports it, why would it be an extension?
-=R

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Jason Greene <jason.greene@redhat.com<mailto:jason.greene@redhat.com>> wrote:
Sure every server that supports > 16KB of compressed header data will implement the extension, or perhaps another extension :) Either way the end result is the same.

On Jul 2, 2014, at 7:33 PM, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com<mailto:grmocg@gmail.com>> wrote:

> Is the extension guaranteed to be supported everywhere?
> If not, then HTTP2 doesn't offer HTTP1's semantics.
> -=R
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Jason Greene <jason.greene@redhat.com<mailto:jason.greene@redhat.com>> wrote:
> Compatibility isn’t really affected here. You simply use the extension if you wish to accept > 16KB of compressed header data. HTTP/1.1 servers were not required to support it any more than they are today.
>
> On Jul 2, 2014, at 7:21 PM, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com<mailto:grmocg@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > One cannot remove continuation without addressing backwards compatibility with HTTP/1.1 deployments sending large headers.
> >
> > The status quo, or a variation which improves the state machine around continuation (e.g. by moving the flags to the last frame of the headers block) makes the most sense to me
> > -=R
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Nicholas Hurley <hurley@todesschaf.org<mailto:hurley@todesschaf.org>> wrote:
> > This sounds like a non-starter, to me. As mentioned in the other thread, I prefer either the status quo, or failing that a stateless CONTINUATION. This seems worse to me than either of those options. With a stateless CONTINUATION, in the rare occasions when I'll encounter a compressed header block > 16k, I can roll back just one step in my HPACK compression, and then continue on sending an uncompressed form of the headers. With CONTINUATION as an extension, when the other side doesn't advertise support, I would either have to either roll back the entire HPACK state that I changed when trying to compress the headers and generate a RST_STREAM (likely synthesizing an 413 or some other error in the process for my own side), or I'd have to send a GOAWAY, and dial back. Neither of those options is in any way more appealing than stateless CONTINUATION (which I'm still not entirely sold on to begin with!)
> >
> > --
> > Peace,
> >   -Nick
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:51 PM, <K.Morgan@iaea.org<mailto:K.Morgan@iaea.org>> wrote:
> > I'd like to propose yet another option to Mark's list of options for dealing with the "CONTINUATION issue".
> >
> > Make it an extension.
> >
> > In NYC several people mentioned that if we add extensibility, we should have an extension(s) right from the start that are used.  CONTINUATION IMO is a good option for an extension.
> >
> > Here is the CONTINUATION extension draft:
> > http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-johndoe-http2-large-header-blocks-00.txt

> >
> > Here is the pull request to remove CONTINUATION from the core h2 draft:
> > https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/pull/547

> >
> > -keith
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