Re: [jetty-users] Missing http2-hpack jar causes connection to time out

[Simone Bordet <sbordet@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 12:48 AM Shawn Heisey via jetty-users
<jetty-users@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What exactly are you seeing in the RFC that says it's required?  I
> believe you, but I am apparently blind, because I can't see it.

The HEADERS frame is defined to carry a "Field Block Fragment",
defined in section 4.3.

Section 4.3 states:

"Details of HTTP/2 field section compression and decompression are
defined in [COMPRESSION]"

where [COMPRESSION] refers to RFC 7541, i.e. HPACK.

That is, the way HTTP/2 encodes headers in a HEADERS frame is via HPACK.

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