Re: http/2 initial limits - i see flow control initial limits specified, but not stream limits

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Fri, 03 May 2013 22:48 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
To: Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: http/2 initial limits - i see flow control initial limits specified, but not stream limits
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On 3 May 2013 14:22, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com> wrote:
> This does differ from SPDY,

This doesn't differ from the SPDY we were given.

> but (still) seems reasonable given the number of
> streams created in the initial RTT shouldn't be unbounded anyway.
> Assuming we have persisted settings (which is in doubt, I guess), this would
> only be a problem for the first RTT in a session where we didn't have the
> persisted setting.

I think that this default is under contention still:
https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/40

We may ultimately determine that some value between 0 (what #40
proposes) and infinity (status quo) is more appropriate.