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What's new in HTTP 2

What's new in HTTP 2

Posted Jul 29, 2013 12:55 UTC (Mon) by nye (subscriber, #51576)
In reply to: What's new in HTTP 2 by hasard
Parent article: What's new in HTTP 2

>What is the defence against servers which do not respect the specification and keep on initiating streams upon receive of a GOAWAY frame?

This kind of question doesn't really make sense. How can the specification meaningfully specify the behaviour of things that are operating outside of the specification? When you're talking about a server which doesn't follow required standards and arbitrarily starts sending unrequested data, it makes no difference whether it's an HTTP 2 server with bugs, an HTTP 1.1 server with bugs, somebody trying to ssh into the wrong IP address, or just some random port scanner.

There is no difference between this problem and the more general problem of receiving unwanted TCP connections, and once you've realised that, the solution is obvious: RST, netfilter, filing a formal complaint, legal action, etc. (roughly in order, though in practice of course it's vanishingly uncommon to get past step 2)


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