- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 21:52:52 +0000
- To: Jeff Pinner <jpinner@twitter.com>
- cc: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, Erik Nygren <erik@nygren.org>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <CA+pLO_ik5H2R-KVyt0dac7o2kd-WwW8mAvUh_TazM9U4oCH1tg@mail.gmail.com>, Jeff Pinner writ es: >On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: >> In message <CA+pLO_h2799vs37eY1HaSnBUmcGkGW-tmjTCJe1WeKZJRAtQGA@mail.gmail.com>, Jeff Pinner writ >> es: >> >>>So am I to read this as a client might advertise a max frame size of >>>256 bytes and then request a 2GB file? >> >> yes. >> >> And the server is free to return 418 or react in any other way it might >> find appropriate. > >assuming i've already returned the 418, what would the suggestion be? Whatever you like. If you think it is a DoS of some kind, just RST it. If you think the user is doing something stupid, return them a 200 and tell them to download the file from another computer ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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