Re: [hybi] Is there a traffic jam?

[Greg Wilkins <[e-mail]>]

Mike Dierken wrote:
> I was thinking the applet would expose the 'web socket' API (or
> equivalent) and the app would be built with JavaScript. This would be
> a way to prototype an approach that created a sibling of
> XMLHttpRequest, but meant for receiving unsolicited requests in a page
> - something like XMLHttpServer (but without the XML part).


Having access to TCP does not really help much.

You still will not be able to tunnel through many firewalls
and proxies without pretending to be HTTP.

Also as a client/application API, raw TCP is pretty
difficult to code against.   What does an application do
with 2 bytes of a 6-byte UTF-8 character.

I very much like websockets abstraction of utf-8 datagrams
in the js/dom API.   This is very usable by applications
and/or frameworks (I just don't think the transport should
be skewed to support uncompressed UTF-8 datagrams without meta
data.)

cheers