A quote from SPDY draft 2 specification: "The length of each name and
value must be greater than zero. A receiver of a zero-length name or
value must send a RST_STREAM with code PROTOCOL error."
But it appears that Chrome browser allows sending requests over SPDY/2
connection using JavaScript that contain headers with empty values.
For better compatibility across SPDY clients and to be compliant with
HTTP, such headers are no longer rejected.
Also, it is worth noting that in SPDY draft 3 the statement has been
changed so that it permits empty values for headers.
It is possible to send FLAG_FIN in additional empty data frame, even if it is
known from the content-length header that request body is empty. And Firefox
actually behaves like this (see ticket #357).
To simplify code we sacrificed our microoptimization that did not work right
due to missing check in the ngx_http_spdy_state_data() function for rb->buf
set to NULL.
This is to avoid setting the TCP_NODELAY flag on SPDY socket in
ngx_http_upstream_send_response(). The latter works per request,
but in SPDY case it might affect other streams in connection.
