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Re: [hybi] WebSocket feedback

Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Thu, 04 March 2010 03:43 UTC

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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:43:53 +0000
From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
To: "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>
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Subject: Re: [hybi] WebSocket feedback
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Thomson, Martin wrote:
>
>    The concatenation of the number obtained from processing the |Sec-
>    WebSocket-Key1| field, expressed as a little-endian 32 bit number,
>    the number obtained from processing the |Sec-WebSocket-Key2| field,
>    again expressed as a little-endian 32 bit number, and finally the
>    eight bytes at the end of the handshake, form a 128 bit string whose
>    MD5 sum is then used by the server to prove that it read the
>    handshake.
> 
> Little-endian?
> 
> I'm from Blefuscu (i.e. the Internet), where we break our eggs on the big end.

Er, my bad. That was meant to be big endian. Fixed.

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