Re: WINDOW_UPDATE(0) ?

In message <CAH_hAJEMiq2uXwM-dbdPqnQx2Etricb6tteeUe6LO8bjy5DMEQ@mail.gmail.com>, Cory Benfield writes:
>On 3 July 2014 08:37, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>> Draft -13 doesn't say what WINDOW_UPDATE(0) means ?

>You're right, there's no explicit description here, but I'd argue that
>this text:
>
>>The legal range for the increment to the flow control window is 1 to
>> 2^31 - 1 (0x7fffffff) bytes.
>
>means that WINDOW_UPDATE(0) is a protocol error. I'd want to tear down
>the stream with GOAWAY, [...]

I would just have ignored it :-)

But yes, any defined meaning is better than not mentioned at all.

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Received on Thursday, 3 July 2014 07:58:13 UTC