Re: [Taps] New Transport Networking APIs in iOS 12 beta

[John Grant <[e-mail]>]

On 15/06/2018 17:17, Tommy Pauly wrote:

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>
> Adding back pressure to inbound connections is something that we do 
> need to add. The approach Michael suggests, of just ignoring an 
> inbound connection until we’re ready to process it, certainly would 
> work. The downside is that this requires the caller of the API to 
> manage their own array of pending inbound connections. One option 
> we’ve considered is allowing the application to specify a “receive 
> connection window size” on a listener, thus defining how many more 
> inbound connections they’re ready to handle at a given time. What do 
> people think about this approach?
Yes, that should be effective. One thing that needs to be avoided is the 
possibility of an attacker (or software error) causing huge numbers of 
Connection objects to be created.

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