mbelshe/SPDY-Specification — Issue #5: incorrect field lengths
Author: PiotrSikora
Created: 2012-01-23 07:49:03+00:00
State: open

Hi,
it looks that frame size is limited to 16,777,215 bytes (24bit space), but the lengths of various fields within frame (number of name/value pairs, name length, value length) can be up to 4,294,967,295 bytes (32bit space) in size, which just doesn't make sense (even if you account for compression).

But more precisely, I see the maximum frame size as unnecessary restriction put in place for no good reason, especially when you consider frontend<>backend communications with buffering frontend. How about changing the frame size to 32bit or even 40bit space?