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Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> Wed, 03 February 2010 01:46 UTC

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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
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Pieter Hintjens wrote:
> Clearly since port 80 is often the
> only way in or out of a network, upgrades over HTTP are essential for
> pragmatic reasons.

Pragmatically, if upgrade over HTTP isn't used, application developers
will just carry on using long-polling over HTTP instead.  Which is
perfectly valid, if unpleasant.

(Btw, you should have seen the network where ICMP ECHO was the only
way in and out.  The administrators were curious why I had fast web
access and nobody else did, and also curious why their packet stats
showed more ICMP ECHOs than any other kind of packets :-)

-- Jamie

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