Re: [hybi] Max frame size

[Francis Brosnan Blazquez <[e-mail]>]

Hi Willy,

> But why would it strip the frame header ? It should simply pass the frame
> header and stream the data.

I'm trying to figure how the use case for this would be. 

So, if the frame received is less than 127 or 65535 bytes the server
reads everything, checks header correctness and that the header
represents bits advised, etc, and then pass the data through a handler
to the user level code...but if the data is bigger, you pass a file
descriptor??

> The server should proceed exactly as it would proceed if receiving a large
> POST. All file transfer applications which support large POSTs (webmails
> etc...) don't buffer everything, they pass it as a stream. Do you imagine
> if the server had to buffer a DVD image or something like this before passing
> it to the application ?

I see your example but this is not the same. In the POST case you have a
single app handling its data (HTTP). 

In the websocket case you have a webserver + an application level code
that implements an application protocol that is unknown to the webserver
so it is not a nice pattern to just pass a file descriptor to the app
level...

> I don't see the difference with frames. You can call the application saying
> "hey, here come 5 GB of data, please read them from this connection handle".

Ok, the way it should be done, assuming we have a message/frame oriented
protocol, is that the app level register a handler which is called every
time a single frame is received. 

This way, the handler is called, for example, each 4k, so the handler
can receive those 5GB with minimum memory allocation and with the
security it handles messages not raw access to a file descriptor (with
the security and code complexity implications it has).

> Regards,
> Willy
> 

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Francis Brosnan Blázquez <[e-mail]>
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