Re: [hybi] Web sockets and existing HTTP stacks

[Greg Wilkins <[e-mail]>]

Ian Hickson wrote:

> Similarly, the server, when parsing 
> the headers in "HTTP" mode, is unaffected by the order -- and indeed, the 
> Web Socket spec doesn't require _anything_ from the server in terms of 
> parsing the client request. You can completely ignore it for all the spec 
> cares. All that matters is that you send back a specific handshake. But if 
> you're sending back the handshake, then you're a Web Socket server, so why 
> do we need to follow HTTP rules? We've already established the client is a 
> Web Socket client, so what on earth is the point of using HTTP rules?

We need to follow HTTP rules because we are in a HTTP server
that has implemented the HTTP standard and until the CRLF
is sent after the 101 response, HTTP rules OK!


You think we are making up the difficulties we are having with this?