QPACK: Header Compression for HTTP/3
draft-ietf-quic-qpack-19
QUIC C. Krasic
Internet-Draft Netflix
Intended status: Standards Track M. Bishop
Expires: 23 April 2021 Akamai Technologies
A. Frindell, Ed.
Facebook
20 October 2020
QPACK: Header Compression for HTTP/3
draft-ietf-quic-qpack-19
Abstract
This specification defines QPACK, a compression format for
efficiently representing HTTP fields, to be used in HTTP/3. This is
a variation of HPACK compression that seeks to reduce head-of-line
blocking.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Conventions and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Compression Process Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1. Encoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1.1. Limits on Dynamic Table Insertions . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1.2. Blocked Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.1.3. Avoiding Flow Control Deadlocks . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1.4. Known Received Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2. Decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2.1. Blocked Decoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2.2. State Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2.3. Invalid References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3. Reference Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.1. Static Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.2. Dynamic Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.2.1. Dynamic Table Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.2.2. Dynamic Table Capacity and Eviction . . . . . . . . . 12
3.2.3. Maximum Dynamic Table Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.2.4. Absolute Indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.2.5. Relative Indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.2.6. Post-Base Indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4. Wire Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.1. Primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.1.1. Prefixed Integers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.1.2. String Literals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.2. Encoder and Decoder Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.3. Encoder Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.3.1. Set Dynamic Table Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.3.2. Insert With Name Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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