Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-16.txt> (Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2) to Proposed Standard

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On 12/01/2015 7:41 p.m., Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 2015-01-12 06:24, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> ...
>>>> If you can't think of a concrete action to take based on
>>>> this setting, I would ignore it.
>>> 
>>> Do we have any implementations that actually do something with 
>>> this setting?
>> 
>> Squid is. The combination of CONTINUATION frame and dense HPACK 
>> compression allows senders to allocate a headers block up past
>> the GB *per message* size ranges. Hardware that comes with TB of
>> RAM is pretty scarce still. ...
> 
> 
> OK, do you we have *client* implementations doing something with
> it.
> 
> Let's assume a UA constructs the message and it has 8K of headers,
> but the server has indicated it only takes 4K. What is the UA
> supposed to do?
> 
> a) Fail the operation immediately? b) Send the request anyway? c)
> Try to do something to reduce size?


Whatever it likes. The protocol has specified that the remote peer is
probably going to reject it if delivered. The rest is a use-case
specific implementation detail.

Amos

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