Re: [hybi] frame length encoding

[Brian <[e-mail]>]

>
> I still think option #2 is the best compromise, and a number of people
> agreed (and a number disagreed).  If that option isn't deemed acceptable and
> having 4 length steps is preferred, I would rather just eat the extra byte
> for small frames and go with the suggestion above, having headers of 3, 4,
> 6, and 10 bytes with 8 reserved bits between the defined flags and the
> opcode, as in:
>
>    - More - 1 bit
>    - CMLP - 1 bit
>    - LenLen - 2 bits
>    - Reserved - 8 bits
>    - Opcode - 4 bits
>    - Length - 2^LenLen bytes
>    - CML - 8 bytes - present only if CMLP=1
>    - Payload - Length bytes
>
> Otherwise, as before.
>
>
+1


Brian McKelvey