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Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Mon, 01 February 2010 23:48 UTC

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From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
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On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> 
> Again, this is why the current draft is so impenetrable (to me) since it 
> expects that the only person implementing the draft is a client vendor 
> using synchronous socket methods...which sort of defeats the purpose 
> when you are trying to write a fully async client...or any type of 
> server.

Could you elaborate on this? I looked for text that assumed synchronous 
socket methods but couldn't find any. Could you quote the offending text?

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