- From: Jeff Pinner <jpinner@twitter.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 14:23:08 -0700
- To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Erik Nygren <erik@nygren.org>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
So am I to read this as a client might advertise a max frame size of 256 bytes and then request a 2GB file? On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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