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H3 ORIGIN be more precise about frame layout

Open LPardue opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

In draft 00 it says:

The layout and semantics of the frame payload are identical to those of the HTTP/2 frame defined in [ORIGIN]. The ORIGIN frame type is 0xc (decimal 12), as in HTTP/2.

I think this is the text as it was, before we ran HTTP/3 and HTTP/2 through the process. I think there's some room for editorial improvements to avoid the guesswork. Not least because HTTP/2 Origin has an errata on the payload definition (https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc8336).

My suggestion is to just admit defeat and define the whole frame like we do in HTTP/3 or ext priorities, something like

HTTP/3 Origin-Entry {
  Origin-Len (16),
  ASCII-Origin (..),
}

HTTP/3 ORIGIN Frame {
  Type (i) = 0x0c,
  Length (i),
  Origin-Entry (..) ...,
}

Then we can say something like the semantics of the HTTP/3 ORIGIN frame payload are the same as those of the HTTP/2 ORIGIN frame, modulo the differences already described (control streams and whatnot).

LPardue avatar Jun 14 '22 00:06 LPardue