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remove incorrect statement about empty STREAM frames
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marten-seemann committed Jun 30, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -1397,10 +1397,6 @@ processing is disproportionately large in comparison to the observable effects
on bandwidth or state, then this could allow a malicious peer to exhaust
processing capacity without consequence.

QUIC prohibits the sending of empty `STREAM` frames unless they are marked with
the FIN bit. This prevents `STREAM` frames from being sent that only waste
effort.

While there are legitimate uses for some redundant packets, implementations
SHOULD track redundant packets and treat excessive volumes of any non-productive
packets as indicative of an attack.
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