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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] allow PING frames in Initial and Handshake packets (#2307)

Marten Seemann <notifications@github.com> Tue, 08 January 2019 01:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] allow PING frames in Initial and Handshake packets (#2307)
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I didn't open an issue, because I thought this was straightforward. In my implementation I use PINGs quite often for loss recovery purposes. Just sending a single PING frame is for example a valid way to generate a probe packet. There's no security implication of allowing PING frames.

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