HTTP/2 Upgrade with content?

Section 3.2 describes the upgrade to HTTP/2 and it allows support for
upgrade requests with bodies:

   Requests that contain an entity body MUST be sent in their entirety
   before the client can send HTTP/2 frames. This means that a large
   request entity can block the use of the connection until it is
   completely sent.

Servers will need to protect themselves from DoS attacks via such requests
as buffering arbitrary large content in their entirety is a commitment that
servers cannot generally give.

Thus servers will have to limit the size of the entities they are prepared
to hold in this situation (and the size of a single normal request buffers
is probably the memory commitment they are prepared to make for any given
connection).

My question is, what should a server do if it receives an otherwise valid
upgrade request that it could handle but with content that exceeds this
memory limit?      Should it respond with a 413 REQUEST_ENTITY_TOO_LARGE or
should it just ignore the upgrade and let the request be handled via
HTTP/1.1 (which can stream the content into the request handler and it
becomes somebody else's problem to limit memory usage).

My problem with ignoring the upgrade is that it is an arbitrary limit and
it will be hard for clients to tell why some upgrades work and others do
not.

Alternately my problem with 413 is that some servers might wish to avoid
the whole upgrade with content path and thus send a 413 for any upgrade
with content, which may break some clients that could otherwise proceed
with HTTP/1.1

thoughts?

PS. in hindsight, I would rather that we had not allowed upgrades with
content and instead told clients to upgrade with an OPTION request prior to
any PUT/POST request.... gallop... gallop... gallop.... SLAM!



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