Re: #551: Limiting header sizes from Martin Thomson on 2014-07-17 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from July to September 2014)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:33:02 -0700
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc: Glen Knowles <gknowles@ieee.org>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnWs7oqd-On6EWhJsBjag5NwNsTcQqCPC3pDG2Lhmsc4kA@mail.gmail.com>

On 17 July 2014 05:38, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>
> One of the biggest risks of HPACK is that the two ends get out of sync
> and the result is going to be really strange headers really fast which
> means really strange errors comming back[1].

I believe that the most likely outcome of desynchronization is that
the connection will be dumped.  Search the spec for
"ConnectionErrorHandler", grep|wc counts 45.  Good luck avoiding all
of those for long.

This is why I tend to think we should do absolutely nothing about issue #555.

Received on Thursday, 17 July 2014 16:33:31 UTC