[hybi] Removing Sec-WebSocket-Origin header field from the WebSocket document

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Sun, 14 August 2011 18:53 UTC

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Subject: [hybi] Removing Sec-WebSocket-Origin header field from the WebSocket document
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Hi,

Richard Barnes who did Gen-Art team review of the protocol document 
asked the following question:

  Why is this document creating a separate Sec-WebSocket-Origin header, rather than using the Origin header from draft-ietf-websec-origin?

I've asked several people and nobody could tell me why the document is defining a new header field. So unless I hear some objection/explanation of why an additional header field is useful, it will be removed in -11.

Thank you,
Alexey, on behalf of editors of the document.