Hi

I agree that this would be a benefit to bandwidth restricted channels as well.

Thanks
Chuck  

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-----Original Message-----
From: TLS [mailto:tls-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Nitin Shrivastav
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 4:53 PM
To: Yoav Nir <ynir.i...@gmail.com>
Cc: tls@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [TLS] RFC 6066 - Max fragment length negotiation

Thanks Yoav. I am assuming it is true for TLS1.2 also?

It would be nice to provide a mechanism for servers to do this as we are trying 
to run a web server in a constrained IoT end-points with only tens of KBytes of 
RAM and SSL/TLS based connection is important..

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Yoav Nir <ynir.i...@gmail.com 
<mailto:ynir.i...@gmail.com> > wrote:


        Hi, Nitin.

        In section 7.4.1.4 of RFC 5246 it says:

           An extension type MUST NOT appear in the ServerHello unless the same
           extension type appeared in the corresponding ClientHello.

        So the answer is no. Only the client may request this.

        Yoav


                On 16 Mar 2017, at 21:12, Nitin Shrivastav 
<nitin.shrivas...@broadcom.com <mailto:nitin.shrivas...@broadcom.com> > wrote:

                Hello,

                This is Nitin Shrivastav, Engineering Manager at Broadcom. I 
have a question on RFC 6066 Maximum Fragment Length Negotiation section 
                
                
                The question i have is whether it is possible for a server to 
initiate the Max fragment length negotiation. The RFC describes a scenario 
where a constrained client can initiate this but in our product the server is 
very tightly constrained on memory and we want to reduce the memory used for 
SSL connections by forcing the clients to use reduce fragment length. We don't 
have control over the clients in our scenario which are basically the browsers 
like Chrome, IE etc.
                
                
                Thanks,
                Nitin
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