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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Clarify that tunnels can send malformed HTTP message, and it is not a connection-level error (#3303)

Martin Thomson <notifications@github.com> Wed, 18 December 2019 04:21 UTC

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martinthomson commented on this pull request.



> @@ -536,6 +536,11 @@ not acting as a tunnel) MUST NOT forward a malformed request or response.
 Malformed requests or responses that are detected MUST be treated as a stream
 error ({{errors}}) of type H3_GENERAL_PROTOCOL_ERROR.
 
+A tunnel that dispatches HTTP messages to different endpoints might forward a

I think that this is a "cannot" rather than a "MUST NOT".  What that intermediary does is up to them.  It might be inadvisable to have errors from one source affect all of the sources that share the same connection, but that's their call.

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