Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Thu, 21 July 2011 17:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard
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2011/7/21 Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>:
> It's proven impossible, despite effort, to retrofit SRV onto HTTP; there is
> no way it'll be possible to retrofit onto WS.

Right. If WS borns with no SRV (as a MUST for WS clients) then just
forget it and let inherit all the ugly limitations from HTTP protocol.

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Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>