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Re: [hybi] Apples and Orangutans

Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> Mon, 13 April 2009 00:27 UTC

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Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> HTTP is a better analogy here than TCP in my opinion. The fact that TCP 
> only maps ports to protocols by convention is not so great - we have to 
> go to extra design effort to prevent cross-protocol attacks as a result.


Good point.

I think the limitation for websocket is that the URL
is associated with the connection, while for HTTP it is associated
with the request.

cheers

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