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Re: [hybi] Frame size

Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> Tue, 20 April 2010 23:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Frame size
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Mike Belshe wrote:
>    OK - this approach seems like the simplest one; each side sends a
>    "max-frame-size" in its headers during the upgrade.  These values do
>    not need to be the same - each side declares the maximum size it is
>    willing to receive.
>    If this is the only use case which requires a complex frame header,
>    then this seems simpler than fragmentation/reassembly/chunking
>    approaches, no?

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