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Re: Design: Rename FRAME_TOO_LARGE to FRAME_SIZE_ERROR

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 19 June 2013 17:23 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Design: Rename FRAME_TOO_LARGE to FRAME_SIZE_ERROR
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On 19 June 2013 09:32, Jeff Pinner <jpinner@twitter.com> wrote:
> 1 byte per data frame is completely legal at both the framing layer and the
> application layer. I believe the only illustrating examples here are
> something like sending a 7 byte PING frame or a 3 byte WINDOW_UPDATE frame.
> You have received the entire frame, it is just malformed.

So, I have a question:  is there an actionable difference between
FRAME_SIZE_ERROR and PROTOCOL_ERROR.  Noting that neither RST_STREAM,
nor GOAWAY, have a way to indicate which frame was in error, there
isn't much that is actionable in either case.  I believe that the
action in both cases is the same: go and debug your stack.

That leads me to conclude that this is error code proliferation for no
good reason.

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