Re: Large Frame Proposal

h2-13 can be fragmented, but not interleaved. Those are different things!
-=R


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com> wrote:

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> In summary the case put against this proposal is that some think 31 bits
> might be too large.
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> There has also been a concern put about header fragmentation, but h2-13
> cannot be fragmented either, so that is really not a point against this
> proposal.
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> Other than that, I thought we were pretty close to consensus.      None of
> the counter proposals made have come close to the near consensus shown in
> this thread.
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> I think we are missing a good opportunity to settle many issues and move
> on.
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> On 12 July 2014 06:15, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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>> In message <
>> CAP+FsNdoESu1GyRwyU5GCQGXFxXaHNfi92d13K86gHxxwFYEJg@mail.gmail.com>
>> , Roberto Peon writes:
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>> >As I mentioned before, IIRC we've seen response headers as large as 12mb,
>> >at which point we said: OK, lets have a 2G limit (effectively infinite),
>> >because clearly we can't predict this.
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>> So there are two questions we need to ask ourselves:
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>> 1. Should the protocol support this case ?
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>> 2. By default or by configuration ?
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>> 3. Who should suffer most ?
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>> My answers are:  Yes, configuration and sender.
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>> Yes, because it is stupid to make a protocol with arbitrary limitations.
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>> Configuration because we should not force all HTTP/2.0 implementations
>> to over-reserve memory on the off-chance that they ever see one of
>> these requests.
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>> Sender, because in particular in a case like this, it is important to
>> give the receiver advance notice that exceptional memory management
>> will be required.
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