- From: Andrew (andy) Newton <andy@hxr.us>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 11:12:47 -0400
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org, tpauly@apple.com
Hi Mark, On 5/5/25 20:02, Mark Nottingham wrote: > Hi Andy, > >> On 6 May 2025, at 3:17 am, Andrew (andy) Newton <andy@hxr.us> wrote: >> >> If there are no maximums, there appears to be some undocumented point when these values become ignored. And if they are ignored, there isn't a mechanism to communicate that they are being ignored, correct? Is that not an interoperability concern? > > Yes, but this is a limit of HTTP itself, as deployed -- implementations as well as deployments can and very much do impose arbitrary limits on sizes of various aspects of headers -- e.g., individual line lengths, individual value lengths (both before and after combination), number of lines, and overall header block size. Anything we specify in this document can be overridden by those limits, and thus cannot be relied upon. Got it. Thanks for your time and patience with these questions. And thanks for the very good work on this document. -andy
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