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

John Tamplin <jat@google.com> Tue, 06 September 2011 21:42 UTC

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From: John Tamplin <jat@google.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:44:08 -0400
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Subject: Re: [hybi] IESG note?, was: Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard
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On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Richard L. Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com> wrote:

> > I personally think the masking thing is pretty ugly. But I
> > have to (reluctantly) admit I think it does what its
> > supposed to do. At this stage I think it comes down to
> > either doing the masking or not using port 80.
>
> I'm sort of of the same feeling.  I don't disagree that masking solves the
> problem it sets out to.  The question is whether there are other ways to
> solve the problem that are simpler, with fewer side effects.
>

Please, let's not reopen months of discussion about exactly that topic.
 Many alternatives were proposed, and XOR masking was the only thing that we
could get consensus on as reasonably acceptable to everyone.

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John A. Tamplin
Software Engineer (GWT), Google