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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Consider making long header payload length 16bits (#1577)

Marten Seemann <notifications@github.com> Tue, 17 July 2018 16:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Consider making long header payload length 16bits (#1577)
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You need to know the length you're about to write in order to not overflow the maximum packet size. I had no problem whatsoever using the smallest possible varint representation for the payload length.

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