Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] HTTP SETTINGS: define setting content encoding (#1556)

Lucas Pardue <notifications@github.com> Mon, 16 July 2018 21:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] HTTP SETTINGS: define setting content encoding (#1556)
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However,

> An implementation MUST ignore the contents for any SETTINGS identifier it does not understand.

justifies externalising the length such that you can skip over unknown settings parameters within a SETTINGS frame

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