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MikeBishop committed Feb 20, 2018
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### Header Compression

HTTP/QUIC uses QCRAM header compression as described in [QCRAM], a variation of
HPACK which allows the flexibility to avoid header-compression-induced HoL
blocking. See that document for additional details.
HPACK which allows the flexibility to avoid header-compression-induced
head-of-line blocking. See that document for additional details.

### The CONNECT Method

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The HEADER_ACK frame (type=0x8) is sent from the decoder to the encoder on the
Control Stream when the decoder has fully processed a header block. It is used
by the encoder to determine whether subsequent indexed representations that
might reference that block are vulnerable to HoL blocking, and to prevent
eviction races. See [QCRAM] for more details on the use of this information.
might reference that block are vulnerable to head-of-line blocking, and to
prevent eviction races. See [QCRAM] for more details on the use of this
information.

The HEADER_ACK frame indicates the stream on which the header block was
processed by encoding the Stream ID as a variable-length integer. The same
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