Re: [hybi] Multiplexing in WebSocket

[Ian Hickson <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Greg Wilkins wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Joshua Bell wrote:
> >> * I seem to recall that one of the desires for sentinel-based frames 
> >> was to allow octet streams for which the length was not known in 
> >> advance.
> > 
> > No; the only reason for sentinel-based frames was to not rely on 
> > authors having to determine the length of their UTF-8-encoded strings, 
> > which in many environments can be easy to get wrong.
> 
> Authors that can't determine the length of a UTF-8 string are not 
> exactly the sort of developers that should be implementing network 
> protocols.

Wow.

I cannot stand behind such a judgmental statement. Personally I would like 
to make this kind of thing accessible to as many people as possible.


> It seams an entirely reasonable simplification of websocket to use only 
> length limited framing and to use the type byte to indicate such things 
> as content charset

What's the use case for doing anything other than UTF-8?

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