Subject: [Webpush] Rejecting messages < 4K? (WAS Re: Non-blocking comments on -05)

From: Brian Raymor <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 17:04:07 +0000

For easier discussion and tracking, I'm calling out this suggestion with a more specific subject line.

On Thursday, June 2, 2016 12:02 AM, Kit Cambridge <[email-masked]> suggested:

> In section 7.2, could we consider allowing push servers to reject messages < 4k?
> If the PS is proxying the message to a third-party server, which Mozilla's server does on iOS and Android, it might not be able to control the size limit.

On Friday, June 3, 2016 7:56 AM, Costin Manolache <[email-masked]>  seconded:
> +1

This change would simply eliminate this requirement:

  Push services MUST NOT return a 413 status code in responses to an entity body that is 4k (4096 bytes) or less in size.

Martin - this was in your first draft. Any concerns?

...Brian