Re: Fragmentation for headers: why jumbo != continuation.

In message <CAEn92TrULC1rniqaG-vFYw9K77d2g97=ANywW3x5UyPfPSR=jA@mail.gmail.com>, Johnny Graetting
er writes:
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>On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz> wrote:
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>> Given the size of a large frame up-front a proxy can actually stream the
>> start of that frame before the end has arrived if you trust the sender
>> will complete it cleanly.
>>
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>The proxy cannot know the encoded size of the block until it's run that
>complete block through it's send-side HPACK context. That context is
>different than the recv-side context, and it will almost certainly result
>in a different block length.

actually, if there exists such a intimate relationship between the
backend and the proxy, the backend can compress the headers to make
that possibl.


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