Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Possible HoL blocking due to co-mingling payload and metadata (header) address space. (#1606)

Lucas Pardue <notifications@github.com> Fri, 27 July 2018 19:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Possible HoL blocking due to co-mingling payload and metadata (header) address space. (#1606)
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I think the current stream design is good for the conventional HTTP case. I think that more specialised HTTP applications, where the resources are more self-describing can benefit from alternate designs. To paraphrase some of the above discussion, a request for a DASH initialisation segment can ellicit a bunch of PUSH_PROMISEs for media segments (easily generated because they are predictable, so minimal HOL blocking). Soon after, media segment body data is delivered on a new type of HTTP/QUIC server-initiated unidirectional stream that delivers segment body on STREAM frames. Some time later, response headers can be delivered on yet another new stream type, to be used for caching etc.

This allows the media segment data to be fed directly into a player pipeline closer to the rate of delivery.

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