Subject: [http-extensions] encryption-encoding: use two octets to indicate record padding length (#135)

From: HTTP issue updates <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 04:33:01 -0800

Each record currently includes between 1 and 256 octets of padding, while the default record size is set to 4096 octets. This is in many cases not sufficient, for example in the pad-to-next-power-of-two case.

Extending the padding length to two octets will allow up to 65537 octets (65KB) of padding.

I raised this on the ietf-http-wg list here:
    https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2016JanMar/0171.html

Martin [raises a good point](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2016JanMar/0175.html) about an upgrade path for existing users. I'll reply on the mailing list to not split the discussion. 

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