diff --git a/http2/hpack/encode.go b/http2/hpack/encode.go
index 395e1c2..54726c2 100644
--- a/http2/hpack/encode.go
+++ b/http2/hpack/encode.go
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 		tableSizeUpdate: false,
 		w:               w,
 	}
+	e.dynTab.table.init()
 	e.dynTab.setMaxSize(initialHeaderTableSize)
 	return e
 }
@@ -88,24 +89,17 @@
 // only name matches, i points to that index and nameValueMatch
 // becomes false.
 func (e *Encoder) searchTable(f HeaderField) (i uint64, nameValueMatch bool) {
-	for idx, hf := range staticTable {
-		if hf.Name != f.Name {
-			continue
-		}
-		if i == 0 {
-			i = uint64(idx + 1)
-		}
-		if f.Sensitive || hf.Value != f.Value {
-			continue
-		}
-		return uint64(idx + 1), true
+	i, nameValueMatch = staticTable.search(f)
+	if nameValueMatch {
+		return i, true
 	}
 
-	j, nameValueMatch := e.dynTab.search(f)
+	j, nameValueMatch := e.dynTab.table.search(f)
 	if nameValueMatch || (i == 0 && j != 0) {
-		i = j + uint64(len(staticTable))
+		return j + uint64(staticTable.len()), nameValueMatch
 	}
-	return
+
+	return i, false
 }
 
 // SetMaxDynamicTableSize changes the dynamic header table size to v.
diff --git a/http2/hpack/encode_test.go b/http2/hpack/encode_test.go
index 92286f3..05f12db 100644
--- a/http2/hpack/encode_test.go
+++ b/http2/hpack/encode_test.go
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"encoding/hex"
+	"fmt"
+	"math/rand"
 	"reflect"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
@@ -101,17 +103,20 @@
 		wantMatch bool
 	}{
 		// Name and Value match
-		{pair("foo", "bar"), uint64(len(staticTable) + 3), true},
-		{pair("blake", "miz"), uint64(len(staticTable) + 2), true},
+		{pair("foo", "bar"), uint64(staticTable.len()) + 3, true},
+		{pair("blake", "miz"), uint64(staticTable.len()) + 2, true},
 		{pair(":method", "GET"), 2, true},
 
-		// Only name match because Sensitive == true
-		{HeaderField{":method", "GET", true}, 2, false},
+		// Only name match because Sensitive == true. This is allowed to match
+		// any ":method" entry. The current implementation uses the last entry
+		// added in newStaticTable.
+		{HeaderField{":method", "GET", true}, 3, false},
 
 		// Only Name matches
-		{pair("foo", "..."), uint64(len(staticTable) + 3), false},
-		{pair("blake", "..."), uint64(len(staticTable) + 2), false},
-		{pair(":method", "..."), 2, false},
+		{pair("foo", "..."), uint64(staticTable.len()) + 3, false},
+		{pair("blake", "..."), uint64(staticTable.len()) + 2, false},
+		// As before, this is allowed to match any ":method" entry.
+		{pair(":method", "..."), 3, false},
 
 		// None match
 		{pair("foo-", "bar"), 0, false},
@@ -328,3 +333,54 @@
 func removeSpace(s string) string {
 	return strings.Replace(s, " ", "", -1)
 }
+
+func BenchmarkEncoderSearchTable(b *testing.B) {
+	e := NewEncoder(nil)
+
+	// A sample of possible header fields.
+	// This is not based on any actual data from HTTP/2 traces.
+	var possible []HeaderField
+	for _, f := range staticTable.ents {
+		if f.Value == "" {
+			possible = append(possible, f)
+			continue
+		}
+		// Generate 5 random values, except for cookie and set-cookie,
+		// which we know can have many values in practice.
+		num := 5
+		if f.Name == "cookie" || f.Name == "set-cookie" {
+			num = 25
+		}
+		for i := 0; i < num; i++ {
+			f.Value = fmt.Sprintf("%s-%d", f.Name, i)
+			possible = append(possible, f)
+		}
+	}
+	for k := 0; k < 10; k++ {
+		f := HeaderField{
+			Name:      fmt.Sprintf("x-header-%d", k),
+			Sensitive: rand.Int()%2 == 0,
+		}
+		for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
+			f.Value = fmt.Sprintf("%s-%d", f.Name, i)
+			possible = append(possible, f)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Add a random sample to the dynamic table. This very loosely simulates
+	// a history of 100 requests with 20 header fields per request.
+	for r := 0; r < 100*20; r++ {
+		f := possible[rand.Int31n(int32(len(possible)))]
+		// Skip if this is in the staticTable verbatim.
+		if _, has := staticTable.search(f); !has {
+			e.dynTab.add(f)
+		}
+	}
+
+	b.ResetTimer()
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		for _, f := range possible {
+			e.searchTable(f)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/http2/hpack/hpack.go b/http2/hpack/hpack.go
index d18be44..176644a 100644
--- a/http2/hpack/hpack.go
+++ b/http2/hpack/hpack.go
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@
 		emit:        emitFunc,
 		emitEnabled: true,
 	}
+	d.dynTab.table.init()
 	d.dynTab.allowedMaxSize = maxDynamicTableSize
 	d.dynTab.setMaxSize(maxDynamicTableSize)
 	return d
@@ -154,12 +155,9 @@
 }
 
 type dynamicTable struct {
-	// ents is the FIFO described at
 	// http://http2.github.io/http2-spec/compression.html#rfc.section.2.3.2
-	// The newest (low index) is append at the end, and items are
-	// evicted from the front.
-	ents           []HeaderField
-	size           uint32
+	table          headerFieldTable
+	size           uint32 // in bytes
 	maxSize        uint32 // current maxSize
 	allowedMaxSize uint32 // maxSize may go up to this, inclusive
 }
@@ -169,77 +167,45 @@
 	dt.evict()
 }
 
-// TODO: change dynamicTable to be a struct with a slice and a size int field,
-// per http://http2.github.io/http2-spec/compression.html#rfc.section.4.1:
-//
-//
-// Then make add increment the size. maybe the max size should move from Decoder to
-// dynamicTable and add should return an ok bool if there was enough space.
-//
-// Later we'll need a remove operation on dynamicTable.
-
 func (dt *dynamicTable) add(f HeaderField) {
-	dt.ents = append(dt.ents, f)
+	dt.table.addEntry(f)
 	dt.size += f.Size()
 	dt.evict()
 }
 
-// If we're too big, evict old stuff (front of the slice)
+// If we're too big, evict old stuff.
 func (dt *dynamicTable) evict() {
-	base := dt.ents // keep base pointer of slice
-	for dt.size > dt.maxSize {
-		dt.size -= dt.ents[0].Size()
-		dt.ents = dt.ents[1:]
+	var n int
+	for dt.size > dt.maxSize && n < dt.table.len() {
+		dt.size -= dt.table.ents[n].Size()
+		n++
 	}
-
-	// Shift slice contents down if we evicted things.
-	if len(dt.ents) != len(base) {
-		copy(base, dt.ents)
-		dt.ents = base[:len(dt.ents)]
-	}
-}
-
-// Search searches f in the table. The return value i is 0 if there is
-// no name match. If there is name match or name/value match, i is the
-// index of that entry (1-based). If both name and value match,
-// nameValueMatch becomes true.
-func (dt *dynamicTable) search(f HeaderField) (i uint64, nameValueMatch bool) {
-	l := len(dt.ents)
-	for j := l - 1; j >= 0; j-- {
-		ent := dt.ents[j]
-		if ent.Name != f.Name {
-			continue
-		}
-		if i == 0 {
-			i = uint64(l - j)
-		}
-		if f.Sensitive {
-			continue
-		}
-		if ent.Value != f.Value {
-			continue
-		}
-		return uint64(l - j), true
-	}
-	return i, false
+	dt.table.evictOldest(n)
 }
 
 func (d *Decoder) maxTableIndex() int {
-	return len(d.dynTab.ents) + len(staticTable)
+	// This should never overflow. RFC 7540 Section 6.5.2 limits the size of
+	// the dynamic table to 2^32 bytes, where each entry will occupy more than
+	// one byte. Further, the staticTable has a fixed, small length.
+	return d.dynTab.table.len() + staticTable.len()
 }
 
 func (d *Decoder) at(i uint64) (hf HeaderField, ok bool) {
-	if i < 1 {
+	// See Section 2.3.3.
+	if i == 0 {
 		return
 	}
+	if i <= uint64(staticTable.len()) {
+		return staticTable.ents[i-1], true
+	}
 	if i > uint64(d.maxTableIndex()) {
 		return
 	}
-	if i <= uint64(len(staticTable)) {
-		return staticTable[i-1], true
-	}
-	dents := d.dynTab.ents
-	return dents[len(dents)-(int(i)-len(staticTable))], true
+	// In the dynamic table, newer entries have lower indices.
+	// However, dt.ents[0] is the oldest entry. Hence, dt.ents is
+	// the reversed dynamic table.
+	dt := d.dynTab.table
+	return dt.ents[dt.len()-(int(i)-staticTable.len())], true
 }
 
 // Decode decodes an entire block.
diff --git a/http2/hpack/hpack_test.go b/http2/hpack/hpack_test.go
index 4c7b17b..c2f8fd1 100644
--- a/http2/hpack/hpack_test.go
+++ b/http2/hpack/hpack_test.go
@@ -5,117 +5,16 @@
 package hpack
 
 import (
-	"bufio"
 	"bytes"
 	"encoding/hex"
 	"fmt"
 	"math/rand"
 	"reflect"
-	"regexp"
-	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 )
 
-func TestStaticTable(t *testing.T) {
-	fromSpec := `
-          +-------+-----------------------------+---------------+
-          | 1     | :authority                  |               |
-          | 2     | :method                     | GET           |
-          | 3     | :method                     | POST          |
-          | 4     | :path                       | /             |
-          | 5     | :path                       | /index.html   |
-          | 6     | :scheme                     | http          |
-          | 7     | :scheme                     | https         |
-          | 8     | :status                     | 200           |
-          | 9     | :status                     | 204           |
-          | 10    | :status                     | 206           |
-          | 11    | :status                     | 304           |
-          | 12    | :status                     | 400           |
-          | 13    | :status                     | 404           |
-          | 14    | :status                     | 500           |
-          | 15    | accept-charset              |               |
-          | 16    | accept-encoding             | gzip, deflate |
-          | 17    | accept-language             |               |
-          | 18    | accept-ranges               |               |
-          | 19    | accept                      |               |
-          | 20    | access-control-allow-origin |               |
-          | 21    | age                         |               |
-          | 22    | allow                       |               |
-          | 23    | authorization               |               |
-          | 24    | cache-control               |               |
-          | 25    | content-disposition         |               |
-          | 26    | content-encoding            |               |
-          | 27    | content-language            |               |
-          | 28    | content-length              |               |
-          | 29    | content-location            |               |
-          | 30    | content-range               |               |
-          | 31    | content-type                |               |
-          | 32    | cookie                      |               |
-          | 33    | date                        |               |
-          | 34    | etag                        |               |
-          | 35    | expect                      |               |
-          | 36    | expires                     |               |
-          | 37    | from                        |               |
-          | 38    | host                        |               |
-          | 39    | if-match                    |               |
-          | 40    | if-modified-since           |               |
-          | 41    | if-none-match               |               |
-          | 42    | if-range                    |               |
-          | 43    | if-unmodified-since         |               |
-          | 44    | last-modified               |               |
-          | 45    | link                        |               |
-          | 46    | location                    |               |
-          | 47    | max-forwards                |               |
-          | 48    | proxy-authenticate          |               |
-          | 49    | proxy-authorization         |               |
-          | 50    | range                       |               |
-          | 51    | referer                     |               |
-          | 52    | refresh                     |               |
-          | 53    | retry-after                 |               |
-          | 54    | server                      |               |
-          | 55    | set-cookie                  |               |
-          | 56    | strict-transport-security   |               |
-          | 57    | transfer-encoding           |               |
-          | 58    | user-agent                  |               |
-          | 59    | vary                        |               |
-          | 60    | via                         |               |
-          | 61    | www-authenticate            |               |
-          +-------+-----------------------------+---------------+
-`
-	bs := bufio.NewScanner(strings.NewReader(fromSpec))
-	re := regexp.MustCompile(`\| (\d+)\s+\| (\S+)\s*\| (\S(.*\S)?)?\s+\|`)
-	for bs.Scan() {
-		l := bs.Text()
-		if !strings.Contains(l, "|") {
-			continue
-		}
-		m := re.FindStringSubmatch(l)
-		if m == nil {
-			continue
-		}
-		i, err := strconv.Atoi(m[1])
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Errorf("Bogus integer on line %q", l)
-			continue
-		}
-		if i < 1 || i > len(staticTable) {
-			t.Errorf("Bogus index %d on line %q", i, l)
-			continue
-		}
-		if got, want := staticTable[i-1].Name, m[2]; got != want {
-			t.Errorf("header index %d name = %q; want %q", i, got, want)
-		}
-		if got, want := staticTable[i-1].Value, m[3]; got != want {
-			t.Errorf("header index %d value = %q; want %q", i, got, want)
-		}
-	}
-	if err := bs.Err(); err != nil {
-		t.Error(err)
-	}
-}
-
 func (d *Decoder) mustAt(idx int) HeaderField {
 	if hf, ok := d.at(uint64(idx)); !ok {
 		panic(fmt.Sprintf("bogus index %d", idx))
@@ -132,10 +31,10 @@
 	}
 	d.dynTab.add(pair("foo", "bar"))
 	d.dynTab.add(pair("blake", "miz"))
-	if got, want := at(len(staticTable)+1), (pair("blake", "miz")); got != want {
+	if got, want := at(staticTable.len()+1), (pair("blake", "miz")); got != want {
 		t.Errorf("at(dyn 1) = %v; want %v", got, want)
 	}
-	if got, want := at(len(staticTable)+2), (pair("foo", "bar")); got != want {
+	if got, want := at(staticTable.len()+2), (pair("foo", "bar")); got != want {
 		t.Errorf("at(dyn 2) = %v; want %v", got, want)
 	}
 	if got, want := at(3), (pair(":method", "POST")); got != want {
@@ -143,41 +42,6 @@
 	}
 }
 
-func TestDynamicTableSearch(t *testing.T) {
-	dt := dynamicTable{}
-	dt.setMaxSize(4096)
-
-	dt.add(pair("foo", "bar"))
-	dt.add(pair("blake", "miz"))
-	dt.add(pair(":method", "GET"))
-
-	tests := []struct {
-		hf        HeaderField
-		wantI     uint64
-		wantMatch bool
-	}{
-		// Name and Value match
-		{pair("foo", "bar"), 3, true},
-		{pair(":method", "GET"), 1, true},
-
-		// Only name match because of Sensitive == true
-		{HeaderField{"blake", "miz", true}, 2, false},
-
-		// Only Name matches
-		{pair("foo", "..."), 3, false},
-		{pair("blake", "..."), 2, false},
-		{pair(":method", "..."), 1, false},
-
-		// None match
-		{pair("foo-", "bar"), 0, false},
-	}
-	for _, tt := range tests {
-		if gotI, gotMatch := dt.search(tt.hf); gotI != tt.wantI || gotMatch != tt.wantMatch {
-			t.Errorf("d.search(%+v) = %v, %v; want %v, %v", tt.hf, gotI, gotMatch, tt.wantI, tt.wantMatch)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 func TestDynamicTableSizeEvict(t *testing.T) {
 	d := NewDecoder(4096, nil)
 	if want := uint32(0); d.dynTab.size != want {
@@ -196,7 +60,7 @@
 	if want := uint32(6 + 32); d.dynTab.size != want {
 		t.Fatalf("after setMaxSize, size = %d; want %d", d.dynTab.size, want)
 	}
-	if got, want := d.mustAt(len(staticTable)+1), (pair("foo", "bar")); got != want {
+	if got, want := d.mustAt(staticTable.len()+1), (pair("foo", "bar")); got != want {
 		t.Errorf("at(dyn 1) = %v; want %v", got, want)
 	}
 	add(pair("long", strings.Repeat("x", 500)))
@@ -255,9 +119,9 @@
 }
 
 func (dt *dynamicTable) reverseCopy() (hf []HeaderField) {
-	hf = make([]HeaderField, len(dt.ents))
+	hf = make([]HeaderField, len(dt.table.ents))
 	for i := range hf {
-		hf[i] = dt.ents[len(dt.ents)-1-i]
+		hf[i] = dt.table.ents[len(dt.table.ents)-1-i]
 	}
 	return
 }
diff --git a/http2/hpack/tables.go b/http2/hpack/tables.go
index b9283a0..8701592 100644
--- a/http2/hpack/tables.go
+++ b/http2/hpack/tables.go
@@ -4,73 +4,199 @@
 
 package hpack
 
+import (
+	"fmt"
+)
+
+// headerFieldTable implements a list of HeaderFields.
+// This is used to implement the static and dynamic tables.
+type headerFieldTable struct {
+	// For static tables, entries are never evicted.
+	//
+	// For dynamic tables, entries are evicted from ents[0] and added to the end.
+	// Each entry has a unique id that starts at one and increments for each
+	// entry that is added. This unique id is stable across evictions, meaning
+	// it can be used as a pointer to a specific entry. As in hpack, unique ids
+	// are 1-based. The unique id for ents[k] is k + evictCount + 1.
+	//
+	// Zero is not a valid unique id.
+	//
+	// evictCount should not overflow in any remotely practical situation. In
+	// practice, we will have one dynamic table per HTTP/2 connection. If we
+	// assume a very powerful server that handles 1M QPS per connection and each
+	// request adds (then evicts) 100 entries from the table, it would still take
+	// 2M years for evictCount to overflow.
+	ents       []HeaderField
+	evictCount uint64
+
+	// byName maps a HeaderField name to the unique id of the newest entry with
+	// the same name. See above for a definition of "unique id".
+	byName map[string]uint64
+
+	// byNameValue maps a HeaderField name/value pair to the unique id of the newest
+	// entry with the same name and value. See above for a definition of "unique id".
+	byNameValue map[pairNameValue]uint64
+}
+
+type pairNameValue struct {
+	name, value string
+}
+
+func (t *headerFieldTable) init() {
+	t.byName = make(map[string]uint64)
+	t.byNameValue = make(map[pairNameValue]uint64)
+}
+
+// len reports the number of entries in the table.
+func (t *headerFieldTable) len() int {
+	return len(t.ents)
+}
+
+// addEntry adds a new entry.
+func (t *headerFieldTable) addEntry(f HeaderField) {
+	id := uint64(t.len()) + t.evictCount + 1
+	t.byName[f.Name] = id
+	t.byNameValue[pairNameValue{f.Name, f.Value}] = id
+	t.ents = append(t.ents, f)
+}
+
+// evictOldest evicts the n oldest entries in the table.
+func (t *headerFieldTable) evictOldest(n int) {
+	if n > t.len() {
+		panic(fmt.Sprintf("evictOldest(%v) on table with %v entries", n, t.len()))
+	}
+	for k := 0; k < n; k++ {
+		f := t.ents[k]
+		id := t.evictCount + uint64(k) + 1
+		if t.byName[f.Name] == id {
+			t.byName[f.Name] = 0
+		}
+		if p := (pairNameValue{f.Name, f.Value}); t.byNameValue[p] == id {
+			t.byNameValue[p] = 0
+		}
+	}
+	copy(t.ents, t.ents[n:])
+	for k := t.len() - n; k < t.len(); k++ {
+		t.ents[k] = HeaderField{} // so strings can be garbage collected
+	}
+	t.ents = t.ents[:t.len()-n]
+	if t.evictCount+uint64(n) < t.evictCount {
+		panic("evictCount overflow")
+	}
+	t.evictCount += uint64(n)
+}
+
+// search finds f in the table. If there is no match, i is 0.
+// If both name and value match, i is the matched index and nameValueMatch
+// becomes true. If only name matches, i points to that index and
+// nameValueMatch becomes false.
+//
+// The returned index is a 1-based HPACK index. For dynamic tables, HPACK says
+// that index 1 should be the newest entry, but t.ents[0] is the oldest entry,
+// meaning t.ents is reversed for dynamic tables. Hence, when t is a dynamic
+// table, the return value i actually refers to the entry t.ents[t.len()-i].
+//
+// All tables are assumed to be a dynamic tables except for the global
+// staticTable pointer.
+//
+// See Section 2.3.3.
+func (t *headerFieldTable) search(f HeaderField) (i uint64, nameValueMatch bool) {
+	if !f.Sensitive {
+		if id := t.byNameValue[pairNameValue{f.Name, f.Value}]; id != 0 {
+			return t.idToIndex(id), true
+		}
+	}
+	if id := t.byName[f.Name]; id != 0 {
+		return t.idToIndex(id), false
+	}
+	return 0, false
+}
+
+// idToIndex converts a unique id to an HPACK index.
+// See Section 2.3.3.
+func (t *headerFieldTable) idToIndex(id uint64) uint64 {
+	if id <= t.evictCount {
+		panic(fmt.Sprintf("id (%v) <= evictCount (%v)", id, t.evictCount))
+	}
+	k := id - t.evictCount - 1 // convert id to an index t.ents[k]
+	if t != staticTable {
+		return uint64(t.len()) - k // dynamic table
+	}
+	return k + 1
+}
+
 func pair(name, value string) HeaderField {
 	return HeaderField{Name: name, Value: value}
 }
 
 // http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-header-compression-07#appendix-B
-var staticTable = [...]HeaderField{
-	pair(":authority", ""), // index 1 (1-based)
-	pair(":method", "GET"),
-	pair(":method", "POST"),
-	pair(":path", "/"),
-	pair(":path", "/index.html"),
-	pair(":scheme", "http"),
-	pair(":scheme", "https"),
-	pair(":status", "200"),
-	pair(":status", "204"),
-	pair(":status", "206"),
-	pair(":status", "304"),
-	pair(":status", "400"),
-	pair(":status", "404"),
-	pair(":status", "500"),
-	pair("accept-charset", ""),
-	pair("accept-encoding", "gzip, deflate"),
-	pair("accept-language", ""),
-	pair("accept-ranges", ""),
-	pair("accept", ""),
-	pair("access-control-allow-origin", ""),
-	pair("age", ""),
-	pair("allow", ""),
-	pair("authorization", ""),
-	pair("cache-control", ""),
-	pair("content-disposition", ""),
-	pair("content-encoding", ""),
-	pair("content-language", ""),
-	pair("content-length", ""),
-	pair("content-location", ""),
-	pair("content-range", ""),
-	pair("content-type", ""),
-	pair("cookie", ""),
-	pair("date", ""),
-	pair("etag", ""),
-	pair("expect", ""),
-	pair("expires", ""),
-	pair("from", ""),
-	pair("host", ""),
-	pair("if-match", ""),
-	pair("if-modified-since", ""),
-	pair("if-none-match", ""),
-	pair("if-range", ""),
-	pair("if-unmodified-since", ""),
-	pair("last-modified", ""),
-	pair("link", ""),
-	pair("location", ""),
-	pair("max-forwards", ""),
-	pair("proxy-authenticate", ""),
-	pair("proxy-authorization", ""),
-	pair("range", ""),
-	pair("referer", ""),
-	pair("refresh", ""),
-	pair("retry-after", ""),
-	pair("server", ""),
-	pair("set-cookie", ""),
-	pair("strict-transport-security", ""),
-	pair("transfer-encoding", ""),
-	pair("user-agent", ""),
-	pair("vary", ""),
-	pair("via", ""),
-	pair("www-authenticate", ""),
+var staticTable = newStaticTable()
+
+func newStaticTable() *headerFieldTable {
+	t := &headerFieldTable{}
+	t.init()
+	t.addEntry(pair(":authority", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair(":method", "GET"))
+	t.addEntry(pair(":method", "POST"))
+	t.addEntry(pair(":path", "/"))
+	t.addEntry(pair(":path", "/index.html"))
+	t.addEntry(pair(":scheme", "http"))
+	t.addEntry(pair(":scheme", "https"))
+	t.addEntry(pair(":status", "200"))
+	t.addEntry(pair(":status", "204"))
+	t.addEntry(pair(":status", "206"))
+	t.addEntry(pair(":status", "304"))
+	t.addEntry(pair(":status", "400"))
+	t.addEntry(pair(":status", "404"))
+	t.addEntry(pair(":status", "500"))
+	t.addEntry(pair("accept-charset", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("accept-encoding", "gzip, deflate"))
+	t.addEntry(pair("accept-language", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("accept-ranges", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("accept", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("access-control-allow-origin", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("age", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("allow", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("authorization", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("cache-control", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("content-disposition", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("content-encoding", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("content-language", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("content-length", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("content-location", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("content-range", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("content-type", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("cookie", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("date", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("etag", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("expect", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("expires", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("from", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("host", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("if-match", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("if-modified-since", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("if-none-match", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("if-range", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("if-unmodified-since", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("last-modified", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("link", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("location", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("max-forwards", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("proxy-authenticate", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("proxy-authorization", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("range", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("referer", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("refresh", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("retry-after", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("server", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("set-cookie", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("strict-transport-security", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("transfer-encoding", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("user-agent", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("vary", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("via", ""))
+	t.addEntry(pair("www-authenticate", ""))
+	return t
 }
 
 var huffmanCodes = [256]uint32{
diff --git a/http2/hpack/tables_test.go b/http2/hpack/tables_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7f40d9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/http2/hpack/tables_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+// Copyright 2017 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package hpack
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"regexp"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestHeaderFieldTable(t *testing.T) {
+	table := &headerFieldTable{}
+	table.init()
+	table.addEntry(pair("key1", "value1-1"))
+	table.addEntry(pair("key2", "value2-1"))
+	table.addEntry(pair("key1", "value1-2"))
+	table.addEntry(pair("key3", "value3-1"))
+	table.addEntry(pair("key4", "value4-1"))
+	table.addEntry(pair("key2", "value2-2"))
+
+	// Tests will be run twice: once before evicting anything, and
+	// again after evicting the three oldest entries.
+	tests := []struct {
+		f                 HeaderField
+		beforeWantStaticI uint64
+		beforeWantMatch   bool
+		afterWantStaticI  uint64
+		afterWantMatch    bool
+	}{
+		{HeaderField{"key1", "value1-1", false}, 1, true, 0, false},
+		{HeaderField{"key1", "value1-2", false}, 3, true, 0, false},
+		{HeaderField{"key1", "value1-3", false}, 3, false, 0, false},
+		{HeaderField{"key2", "value2-1", false}, 2, true, 3, false},
+		{HeaderField{"key2", "value2-2", false}, 6, true, 3, true},
+		{HeaderField{"key2", "value2-3", false}, 6, false, 3, false},
+		{HeaderField{"key4", "value4-1", false}, 5, true, 2, true},
+		// Name match only, because sensitive.
+		{HeaderField{"key4", "value4-1", true}, 5, false, 2, false},
+		// Key not found.
+		{HeaderField{"key5", "value5-x", false}, 0, false, 0, false},
+	}
+
+	staticToDynamic := func(i uint64) uint64 {
+		if i == 0 {
+			return 0
+		}
+		return uint64(table.len()) - i + 1 // dynamic is the reversed table
+	}
+
+	searchStatic := func(f HeaderField) (uint64, bool) {
+		old := staticTable
+		staticTable = table
+		defer func() { staticTable = old }()
+		return staticTable.search(f)
+	}
+
+	searchDynamic := func(f HeaderField) (uint64, bool) {
+		return table.search(f)
+	}
+
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		gotI, gotMatch := searchStatic(test.f)
+		if wantI, wantMatch := test.beforeWantStaticI, test.beforeWantMatch; gotI != wantI || gotMatch != wantMatch {
+			t.Errorf("before evictions: searchStatic(%+v)=%v,%v want %v,%v", test.f, gotI, gotMatch, wantI, wantMatch)
+		}
+		gotI, gotMatch = searchDynamic(test.f)
+		wantDynamicI := staticToDynamic(test.beforeWantStaticI)
+		if wantI, wantMatch := wantDynamicI, test.beforeWantMatch; gotI != wantI || gotMatch != wantMatch {
+			t.Errorf("before evictions: searchDynamic(%+v)=%v,%v want %v,%v", test.f, gotI, gotMatch, wantI, wantMatch)
+		}
+	}
+
+	table.evictOldest(3)
+
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		gotI, gotMatch := searchStatic(test.f)
+		if wantI, wantMatch := test.afterWantStaticI, test.afterWantMatch; gotI != wantI || gotMatch != wantMatch {
+			t.Errorf("after evictions: searchStatic(%+v)=%v,%v want %v,%v", test.f, gotI, gotMatch, wantI, wantMatch)
+		}
+		gotI, gotMatch = searchDynamic(test.f)
+		wantDynamicI := staticToDynamic(test.afterWantStaticI)
+		if wantI, wantMatch := wantDynamicI, test.afterWantMatch; gotI != wantI || gotMatch != wantMatch {
+			t.Errorf("after evictions: searchDynamic(%+v)=%v,%v want %v,%v", test.f, gotI, gotMatch, wantI, wantMatch)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestStaticTable(t *testing.T) {
+	fromSpec := `
+          +-------+-----------------------------+---------------+
+          | 1     | :authority                  |               |
+          | 2     | :method                     | GET           |
+          | 3     | :method                     | POST          |
+          | 4     | :path                       | /             |
+          | 5     | :path                       | /index.html   |
+          | 6     | :scheme                     | http          |
+          | 7     | :scheme                     | https         |
+          | 8     | :status                     | 200           |
+          | 9     | :status                     | 204           |
+          | 10    | :status                     | 206           |
+          | 11    | :status                     | 304           |
+          | 12    | :status                     | 400           |
+          | 13    | :status                     | 404           |
+          | 14    | :status                     | 500           |
+          | 15    | accept-charset              |               |
+          | 16    | accept-encoding             | gzip, deflate |
+          | 17    | accept-language             |               |
+          | 18    | accept-ranges               |               |
+          | 19    | accept                      |               |
+          | 20    | access-control-allow-origin |               |
+          | 21    | age                         |               |
+          | 22    | allow                       |               |
+          | 23    | authorization               |               |
+          | 24    | cache-control               |               |
+          | 25    | content-disposition         |               |
+          | 26    | content-encoding            |               |
+          | 27    | content-language            |               |
+          | 28    | content-length              |               |
+          | 29    | content-location            |               |
+          | 30    | content-range               |               |
+          | 31    | content-type                |               |
+          | 32    | cookie                      |               |
+          | 33    | date                        |               |
+          | 34    | etag                        |               |
+          | 35    | expect                      |               |
+          | 36    | expires                     |               |
+          | 37    | from                        |               |
+          | 38    | host                        |               |
+          | 39    | if-match                    |               |
+          | 40    | if-modified-since           |               |
+          | 41    | if-none-match               |               |
+          | 42    | if-range                    |               |
+          | 43    | if-unmodified-since         |               |
+          | 44    | last-modified               |               |
+          | 45    | link                        |               |
+          | 46    | location                    |               |
+          | 47    | max-forwards                |               |
+          | 48    | proxy-authenticate          |               |
+          | 49    | proxy-authorization         |               |
+          | 50    | range                       |               |
+          | 51    | referer                     |               |
+          | 52    | refresh                     |               |
+          | 53    | retry-after                 |               |
+          | 54    | server                      |               |
+          | 55    | set-cookie                  |               |
+          | 56    | strict-transport-security   |               |
+          | 57    | transfer-encoding           |               |
+          | 58    | user-agent                  |               |
+          | 59    | vary                        |               |
+          | 60    | via                         |               |
+          | 61    | www-authenticate            |               |
+          +-------+-----------------------------+---------------+
+`
+	bs := bufio.NewScanner(strings.NewReader(fromSpec))
+	re := regexp.MustCompile(`\| (\d+)\s+\| (\S+)\s*\| (\S(.*\S)?)?\s+\|`)
+	for bs.Scan() {
+		l := bs.Text()
+		if !strings.Contains(l, "|") {
+			continue
+		}
+		m := re.FindStringSubmatch(l)
+		if m == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		i, err := strconv.Atoi(m[1])
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("Bogus integer on line %q", l)
+			continue
+		}
+		if i < 1 || i > staticTable.len() {
+			t.Errorf("Bogus index %d on line %q", i, l)
+			continue
+		}
+		if got, want := staticTable.ents[i-1].Name, m[2]; got != want {
+			t.Errorf("header index %d name = %q; want %q", i, got, want)
+		}
+		if got, want := staticTable.ents[i-1].Value, m[3]; got != want {
+			t.Errorf("header index %d value = %q; want %q", i, got, want)
+		}
+	}
+	if err := bs.Err(); err != nil {
+		t.Error(err)
+	}
+}