Re: [hybi] The future of WebSockets, and the WiSH proposal

Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> Thu, 27 April 2017 09:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] The future of WebSockets, and the WiSH proposal
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Takeshi,

I note that in your drafts introduction you say:

> when HTTP/1.1 is used as the underlying protocol, full-duplex
> communication may
> be broken if the client, server or any proxy chooses to buffer or reject
> earlier 2xx
> responses


Which is a clear and accurate statement of the key problem facing any
forever-frame based transport, regardless of what framing protocol is used
within those forever-frames.  So while using the standard WS framing is
admirable, as is the usage of bidirectional communications, I do not see
why this is any more than WiSHful thinking that buffering or simplex
proxies will prevent universal coverage of the WS semantic.

So if I understand your intent correctly, you wish to define WS over HTTP
semantics in a way that is transport independent, so it will work for both
HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 so that WS can benefit from the single connection muxing
available in HTTP/2 when that is available.

The problem with this approach is that the HTTP semantics just does not
support full-duplex streaming transport and thus it is bound to fail now
and potentially in the future when new proxy standards may be developed.

I think the effort would be better spent working with the HTTPbis working
group to get the WS semantic accepted over HTTP/2 framing in a way that
distinguishes the content from a normal HTTP message that might be stored
and forwarded.

regards









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Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> CTO http://webtide.com