Re: [hybi] [tsv-area] Fwd: I-D Action:draft-hixie-thewebsocketprotocol-35.txt

Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> Sat, 05 September 2009 14:24 UTC

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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
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L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk wrote:
> 
>    I don't see the reason for Connection: upgrade / Upgrade: WebSocket
>    as the handshake mechanism.
>    Surely a Content-* header (say: Content-Upgrade: WebSocket) is better,
>    as
>    it will be explicitly dropped and 501'd by proxies or by sources
>    not supporting web sockets? (per section 9.6 of RFC2616.) That
>    way, you know when the handshake has failed...

What part of RFC2616 says Content-* headers must be dropped by proxies
which don't support them?  It certainly isn't section 9.6 ("PUT"), nor
any other section I'm aware of.

-- Jamie