Re: H2: Should there be a limit to tolerance ?

On 17 February 2017 at 22:17, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> But what if the counterpart just keeps hammering you with frames
> which you ignore ?
>
> What if it keeps hammering you with *only* frames which get ignored ?
>
> What if it does so at very high rate, because it is buggy or hostile ?
>
> What if the buggy implementation was in several million Internet-Of-Shit
> things that got poured into concrete years ago ?
>
> There's got to be _some_ limit to patience ?

See http://httpwg.org/specs/rfc7540.html#dos

I realize that we don't mention unknown frame types.  That's an oversight.

Received on Friday, 17 February 2017 22:05:39 UTC