question about QPACK decode framing

Brian Swander <briansw@microsoft.com> Wed, 31 October 2018 20:57 UTC

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From: Brian Swander <briansw@microsoft.com>
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Subject: question about QPACK decode framing
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Is there a way to determine that we are decoding a complete set of headers a priori?   I.e. is the "headers length" encoded anywhere?   Or does decode (control stream) just have to handle the case where we only have a partial header, and we just pend and wait for more data before continuing?

Thanks
bs