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Re: [hybi] Comments about draft-13

"Richard L. Barnes" <rbarnes@bbn.com> Tue, 06 September 2011 17:57 UTC

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Correct.  So absent further restrictions in the API, a script could supply arbitrary UTF-8 data.  Thus, non "Sec".

--Richard


On Sep 6, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:

> 2011/9/6 Richard L. Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com>:
>> But the current WS API offers a much more direct channel to Websocket-Protocol, allowing the script to put in arbitrary strings.
> 
> But an "arbitraty string" could be a valid token so also a valid value
> for Sec-WebSocket-Protocol :)
> 
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> -- 
> Iñaki Baz Castillo
> <ibc@aliax.net>

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