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Re: [hybi] Reliable message delivery (was Re: Technical feedback.)

Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> Tue, 02 February 2010 00:20 UTC

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Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:58:54 +0100, Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> wrote:
>> But I would think that reasonable error handling should be part
>> of the base protocol.  It's like suggesting that 400 Bad Request
>> be taken out of HTTP.
> 
> Well yes, but WebSockets is not meant to be like HTTP. The idea is to
> just have a simple layer on top of TCP that makes it suitable for
> deployment in Web browsers. I would expect something like SPDY to
> provide the (far) more complex variant.

TCP does have  difference between an orderly shutdown (FIN),
error shutdown (RST) and timeouts.

So if you want to be like TCP, then you'll have those
concepts.

Currently websocket is more like webserialport than webtcp

regards

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