Re: [hybi] Serf support for BWTP

Hi Justin,

Interesting to know you have a Serf implementation.  If you like you
can add it to the long and growing list of BWTP implementations at
http://bwtp.wikidot.com/main:implementations.

-Pieter

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Justin Erenkrantz
<justin@erenkrantz.com> wrote:
> Hi hybi@,
>
> Out of some stuff that's been done with CREST [1], I got pointed at
> BWTP and decided to implement it in Serf [2].  A colleague of mine at
> UC Irvine is implementing BWTP with PLT Scheme for some CREST stuff
> he's doing.  (In short, CREST would benefit from having an async
> protocol.)
>
> If ya'll haven't followed the Twitter conversation between me and
> Hixie over the last few days, I've pretty much come to the same
> conclusions regarding "Web Sockets" RFC that Greg Wilkins did much
> earlier.  (Kudos to Greg!)  I guess that Hixie has tried to write his
> RFC drafts in a way that stresses one particular way of writing a
> client - but for a pure async client library like Serf, the
> description in the RFC is pretty impenetrable...and, in my mind, not
> very helpful when it comes to writing an independent implementation.
> So, I found BWTP a lot easier to implement...and so I did.
>
> The BWTP implementation in Serf isn't perfect and there's probably
> more to do, but it'll suffice for now.  Though there do seem to be
> some errors in the BWTP RFC, but I'm not sure if Greg is updating the
> BWTP RFC drafts or not.  If so, I'm happy to post about those apparent
> errors as well.
>
> Anyway, Hixie asked that I subscribe/post to the IETF list, so here I
> am.  =)  -- justin
>
> 1. http://www.erenkrantz.com/CREST/
> 2. http://code.google.com/p/serf/
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