Re: [hybi] frame length encoding

[Daniel Stenberg <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, gustav wrote:

>> I think I would prefer a plain 32 bit size, with no special treatment for
>> smaller fragments.

> Do you care to elaborate why ?.

I think most of the arguments around the sizes already have been mentioned and 
I'm not sitting on any new secrets.

I think sizes larger than 32bit will be very rare for Websockets, even for a 
long time to come into the future. Thus a vast vast majority of all frames 
will be sent with at least 4 bytes set to zero (with a fair amount of them not 
even implementing >32 bit support). In my mind, I think the few users that 
acually want to send more than 32bits of data can send it in multiple packets 
to get around the limitation. It's not like having a 32bit limit here will 
prevent anyone from sending more than 4GB of data.

I don't think 4 bytes size is any particular size "loss" for small packets to 
feel bad about, so I prefer the simplicity of always just getting the size in 
a single specified way.

> Its not the lazy coders who pay others net bills.

Uh?

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  / daniel.haxx.se