Re: [hybi] How to select which websocket protocol to use

[Greg Wilkins <[e-mail]>]

Francis Brosnan Blazquez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In the case someone wants to use BWTP, how is this signaled to the
> Websocket (javascript) API? Is this controlled by the "protocol"
> constructor argument?

I believe that is the intent.

However, for this to work well, I think there needs to be several
other "systems" put in place.

To avoid protocol name clashes, either they will need to be allocated
by IANA or something already unique like URLs will need to be used.

I would also like to see that the usage of the frame-type bytes
be scoped by protocol name.   So that if a protocol like BWTP
wants to define a set of frametypes (for header frames vs
body frames etc.), then it can do so with out clashing with
other uses of those bytes.    This would also avoid the need
for IANA to allocated additional values for this byte.


cheers