On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 12:05:42PM -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> One simple and easy option is to have a new extension to indicate the
> maximum consecutive padding that will be accepted by an endpoint, and
> abort the connection if too much padding is received in a row without
> any non-padding content.  But that might be too complicated, and we
> could just note that implementations may get grumpy if they see too much
> padding and abort the connection; peers are basically allowed to abort
> the connection at will already, so it's not really a new thing.

Or, you know, just close the connection.  Give them a fatal record to
tell them why.  No need to tell them up fron how much naughtiness you'll
allow.

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