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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] When to send the SETTINGS frame (#2945)

Dmitri Tikhonov <notifications@github.com> Wed, 07 August 2019 12:50 UTC

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@LPardue writes:
> The server might wait until it receives the client SETTINGS in order to make use of the dynamic table in the response. If the client doesn't want to send SETTINGS, the connection might idle time out.

That's not the sort of bug that would go unnoticed for long.  Implementing a server that way would be, to borrow @martinthomson's euphemism, unwise.

QPACK is designed with the understanding that QPACK can be used before the _SETTINGS_ frame is received.  I suggest we remove the QPACK dynamic table aspect from this discussion.

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