Re: RST_STREAM and FINAL flag

Jeff Pinner <jpinner@twitter.com> Thu, 25 April 2013 19:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: RST_STREAM and FINAL flag
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>
> +1 ... for completeness, the definition of the RST_STREAM and GOAWAY
> frames can say that the FINAL flag is to be ignored in all cases
> because the frames themselves are terminal in nature.
>
>
GOAWAY and RST_STREAM have different semantics -- but I would note that
RST_STREAM is different than FINAL because it puts the stream in a closed
state and not half-closed and thus behaves differently when
the initiator of the stream sends it (RST_STREAM w/ CANCEL for example)