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Re: [jetty-users] Missing http2-hpack jar causes connection to time out rather than throw an exception

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 1:24 AM Shawn Heisey via jetty-users
<jetty-users@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 9/4/23 13:49, Shawn Heisey via jetty-users wrote:
> > * Proceed without HPACK, logging a message at WARN about it.  This
> > assumes that http2 CAN operate without hpack.  If http2 requires hpack,
> > then I think it should not be in a separate jar from the main http2
> > implementation.  I read through the http2 RFC when it was first
> > released, but I admit that I do not remember whether or not hpack was
> > required.
>
> I have learned that hpack is not *required* by http2,

Do you have pointers?

The RFC is quite clear that HPACK is mandatory for HTTP/2:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9113.html#name-field-section-compression-a

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