#557 Intra-Message HEADERS frames was: Striving for Compromise (Consensus?)

• From: <K.Morgan@iaea.org>
• Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:35:59 +0000
• To: <mnot@mnot.net>, <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
• Message-ID: <6C14550A-0A58-4C00-9CC2-56C9ED9E2B37@iaea.org>

K.Morgan@iaea.org> wrote:
>
> On 11 Jul 2014, at 15:22, "jpinner@twitter.com" <jpinner@twitter.com> wrote:
>
>> It
>> also prevents experimenting with the type of inter-message HEADERS
>> frames that some people wanted (streaming checksums and the like) that
>> are currently permitted to be sent but have no "semantic" mapping to
>> HTTP/1.1
>
> I'm all for this, but I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Re-using HEADERS frames for this purpose is confusing. Are they hpack encoded? What does it mean if you get an intra-message HEADERS frame and END_HEADERS is set? Is END_STREAM allowed?
>
> Why not just add a simple METADATA frame and be done with it?

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