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Re: [TLS] RFC 6066 - Max fragment length negotiation

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Thu, 16 March 2017 23:45 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Nitin Shrivastav <nitin.shrivastav@broadcom.com>
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Nitin Shrivastav <nitin.shrivastav@broadcom.com> writes:

>Thanks Peter, seems like this extension is not an option.  

In which case it might be time to update the RFC, since there's no obvious
reason why you can't send it from the server.  Can any of the original authors
provide a reason why it shouldn't be done by the server?

Peter.

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