Re: [hybi] -09: abstract and introduction

[Iñaki Baz Castillo <[e-mail]>]

2011/6/15 Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>:
> Section 1.7 says:
>
>   By default the WebSocket protocol uses port 80 for regular WebSocket
>   connections and port 443 for WebSocket connections tunneled over TLS
>   [RFC2818].
>
> I know this has been discussed on the list, but how can an entity
> discover if WebSocket is offered on ports other than 80/443?

I don't understand the question. The WebSocket URI is provided by the
webserver (most probably) and it can contain a port or not. If it does
not contain a port then default port should be used (80/443 depending
on URI schema). Do I miss something?


> Would the
> web server use a redirect to do that? Could it define SRV records?

I wrote a draft for including SRV records in WebSocket:

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ibc-websocket-dns-srv-02

...but got not too much interest, nothing in fact (I assume that since
HTTP just uses DNS A records, no more DNS stuff exists).




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