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floatingatoll on April 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Turning on HTTP/2 Was a Mistake

I looked it up and I remembered incorrectly: the bug was due to the load balancer activating chunked transfer encoding to the backend nodes due to receiving the described HTTP2 request. It did not involve pipelining.

toast0 on April 23, 2019 [–]

Thank you, that makes more sense. Chunked transfer encoding is also a hidden danger!

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