Re: [TLS] Justification

Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com> Wed, 12 May 2010 18:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Justification
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Would they be https URL's?  Then you would have an infinite-recursion
problem....

Mike



Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 01:33:08PM -0400, Adam Langley wrote:
>> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> What is this three packet limit you speak of?
>> TCP's initial congestion window is three frames (for now). So a TLS
>> server which needs more than three frames to send ServerHello through
>> to ServerHelloDone will have to wait additional round trips for
>> acknowledgments from the client.
> 
> I think this argues for using URLs for cacheable objects.
> 
> Nico