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Re: Framing and control-frame continuations

"Martin Nilsson" <nilsson@opera.com> Fri, 08 February 2013 07:28 UTC

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On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:47:08 +0100, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>  
wrote:

>
> The Frame format:
>
>          0                   1
>          0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
>         +-+-+-----------+---------------+
>         |F|C|  type     |               |
>         +-+-+-----------+               +
>         |        Frame Length (24)      |
>         +-------------------------------+
>         |       opaque ID (16)          |
>         +-------------------------------+
>         |     Frame Data (16...N)       |
>         +-------------------------------+
>

Since the flow only ends once, isn't an end-of-flow control type more  
efficient use of bits than a flag?

/Martin Nilsson

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