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Re: [hybi] hybi 10 ---- server to client masking

David Endicott <dendicott@gmail.com> Wed, 20 July 2011 18:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] hybi 10 ---- server to client masking
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So the flag is the truth, and either end must be prepared to process masking
based on the frame's flag?


On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:18 AM, John Tamplin <jat@google.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Arman Djusupov <arman@noemax.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't think you are correct. As far as I understand the discussions in
>> the group over masking, the server to client masking is optional (server MAY
>> MASK). Otherwise we would not need a masking flag in the frame header since
>> client-to-server frames would always be masked and server-to-client frames
>> would never be masked.
>>
>
> The flag was requested so intermediaries (including packet sniffers) could
> interpret the frame without knowing the context (ie, which direction the
> packet is going or negotiated extensions, etc).
>
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> John A. Tamplin
> Software Engineer (GWT), Google
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