Re: Large Frames, Continuations, Flow Control, and changing HPACK

From: Jeff Pinner <jpinner@twitter.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 09:39:06 -0700
To: Cory Benfield <cory@lukasa.co.uk>
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CA+pLO_ieYC8Sbvk7dNqd2+mtQOn2qxBkrUSxp+9VrTDrzQcFXQ@mail.gmail.com>

To be clear, the proposal is:

1) Remove the reference set from HPACK (use "Linear-H")
2) Increase the frame size to 16-bits
3) Allow interleaving of HEADERS frames
4) Remove the "\0" separator hack.

Coupling this with my earlier proposal to add a "SYN_STREAM" header
would also allow us to:

5) Remove CONTINUATION frames entirely
6) Move END_* flags to the last HEADERS frame
7) Flow control HEADERS frames

Received on Tuesday, 8 July 2014 17:00:05 UTC