Re: HTTP router point-of-view concerns

[Roberto Peon <[e-mail]>]

I'm calling that the static table. Those are the elements you get for
"free" (as in the memory is allocated once in the process, as opposed to
for every connection).

-=R


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:02 PM, James M Snell <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Roberto Peon <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >[snip]
> >
> > The DoS vector you're talking about is not a DoS vector if the
> intermediary
> > resets all streams before the change-of-state-size comes into effect.
> > When the state size is 0, one should be able to use some kinds of
> 'indexed'
> > representations, so long as those representations refer only to items in
> the
> > static tables. Why do you believe that this would use more or less CPU?
> (It
> > should use less CPU and less memory...)
> > [snip]
>
> Well, as far as I can tell, according to the current header
> compression draft, there is no "static table". The header table is
> pre-populated, yes, but those items would fall out of the header table
> via eviction as the table fills. There is nothing in the current
> header compression draft that says those items are permanent.... Given
> that, and given that we've already established that reducing the
> header table size forces eviction, setting the size to zero would
> cause all of the pre-populated items to be evicted.
>
> - James
>