Re: [hybi] Ping/Pong body (was Re: TSV-Directorate review of draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-07)

Patrick McManus <pmcmanus@mozilla.com> Thu, 19 May 2011 01:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Ping/Pong body (was Re: TSV-Directorate review of draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-07)
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On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 18:23 -0700, Brian McKelvey wrote:
> Indeed.. It's simpler for the protocol to state that a pong should be sent in response to a ping and leave it at that.
> 

agreed - I'm not seeing a compelling reason to make any particular
change from -07, though I would expect implementations to use it much
more conservatively than is allowed. And that's ok.