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Re: [hybi] Review of draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-13

Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Tue, 06 September 2011 14:46 UTC

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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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Subject: Re: [hybi] Review of draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-13
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On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 10:43:38AM -0400, Richard L. Barnes wrote:
> Clearly it already has to be WebSocket aware, and it already has to read the opcode in order to distinguish data frames from control frames.  Adding on a requirement to break at code point boundaries does not seem hugely onerous.  It's three lines of C:

Yes it is : you have to process all the bytes. You can't use splicing
to forward XXX bytes between one socket and another, for instance,
which precisely is what a number of intermediaries will do.

Regards,
Willy

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