Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] HTTP SETTINGS: define setting content encoding (#1556)

Mike Bishop <notifications@github.com> Tue, 07 August 2018 16:29 UTC

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That could be specified in four bits, true.  I could be convinced that cutting a byte off the length for every setting value saves more than being able to omit the value for booleans.  The original reason for having an arbitrary-length field was extensions that needed to supply a large set of supported values, such as supported signing algorithms for the CERTIFICATE_PROOF in the originally-adopted version of Secondary Certificates.  So the goal was not only to save bytes from settings that didn't need four bytes, but also to provide extra bytes to settings that needed complex, structured values.

However, the need to negotiate such complicated items has been delegated to TLS in that instance and hasn't shown up elsewhere.  We might simply say that if the need crops up for some future extension, they'll need to define an additional frame type to carry that configuration data.

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