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Re: [hybi] Masking only Payload/Extension Data

John Tamplin <jat@google.com> Thu, 10 March 2011 19:48 UTC

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From: John Tamplin <jat@google.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:49:29 -0500
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:36 PM, David Endicott <dendicott@gmail.com> wrote:

> Afterthought:  an unmasked header would allow Websocket aware
> intermediaries to manipulate frames without unmasking them.
> Websocket aware load balancers and distributed frameworks come to
> mind.


Right, that has been the main objection (by my estimation anyway) to masking
the header.  However, unmasking 2-10 bytes doesn't seem like a large
burden.

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John A. Tamplin
Software Engineer (GWT), Google

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