- From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 13:12:03 -0700
- To: Erik Nygren <erik@nygren.org>
- Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 13 July 2014 12:59, Erik Nygren <erik@nygren.org> wrote: > Where does the 256 octet minimum come from? That seems like an arbitrary > value. Is it too low? The minimum values have ended up mattering in other > protocols (the IPv4 minimum bleeding over into impacting DNS, etc) so we > should be careful not to set it too low. That's basically the smallest unit that anyone could imagine being useful. (PHK cites GET /robots.txt as needing less than that much for uncompressed header fields.) The concerns around MTU and all that aren't really relevant here, so a really small minimum is OK.
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