On 17/02/2021 16:00, Eric Rescorla wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 4:44 PM Stephen Farrell <stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:On 17/02/2021 00:34, Eric Rescorla wrote:How is it any harder to manage a multi-octet server-chosen value than a single-octet server-chosen value?Easier for the library on the server side. If it's >1 octet then someone will want some semantics. If ==1 then they'll have to accept none and possible collisions so it can be handled independently inside the library.The server is free to enforce 1 byte.
A server operator would be free to do that. The person writing the code likely would not be as some server operator would also be free to try impose semantics on a multibyte field. S.
-Ekr
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