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Re: [hybi] frame length encoding

John Tamplin <jat@google.com> Sun, 22 August 2010 21:21 UTC

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From: John Tamplin <jat@google.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:22:08 -0400
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Subject: Re: [hybi] frame length encoding
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On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Shelby Moore <shelby@coolpage.com> wrote:

> So then the maximum size from the handshake is not a maximum size and the
> other end can violate it.
>
> I can really hear the complaining from that.  "What the maximum size is
> not a maximum size, it is just a mild suggestion?!?!"
>

I would think that the spec will have to say an implementation is free to
drop a frame larger than an implementation-defined limit.  The value in the
handshake, then, is just a promise of "I won't drop your frame for excessive
length if it is below this size".

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John A. Tamplin
Software Engineer (GWT), Google

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