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

Martin Thomson <notifications@github.com> Tue, 17 July 2018 18:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Consider making long header payload length 16bits (#1577)
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Can't you just use the 16-bit encoding always?  You can encode small values on 2, 4, or 8 octets if necessary.

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