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Re: [hybi] CONNECT handshake text

Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> Wed, 08 December 2010 22:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] CONNECT handshake text
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On Dec 8, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Pat McManus @Mozilla wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 15:42 -0500, Joe Mason wrote:
> 
>> How about spelling that out specifically in the draft?  "The handshake
>> must send the following bytes, which form a valid HTTP request as
>> specified by [RFC2616]"
> 
> you can restrict what bytes the client can send, but you cannot say that
> it is exactly what the WS server will receive. While this is still HTTP,
> an HTTP intermediary can rearrange those bytes in any way that is HTTP
> compliant (and realistically, many that are not - but are normal
> expected uses of HTTP on today's Internet.).

The section we were discussing is the description of what the client must send. It doesn't talk at all about what the server should expect or how the server should process what it receives.

Regards,
Maciej

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