Re: [hybi] Web sockets and existing HTTP stacks

Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> Wed, 03 February 2010 01:47 UTC

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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Mridul Muralidharan <mridulm80@yahoo.com>
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Mridul Muralidharan wrote:
> HTTP leading to XYZ is a different case (through upgrade, etc) -
> since it is done explicitly. From what I understand, websockets
> tries to not take this route, but masquerade as http.

Your understanding is mistaken.

-- Jamie