Re: [hybi] [Uri-review] ws: and wss: schemes

["Roy T. Fielding" <[e-mail]>]

On Aug 14, 2009, at 8:12 AM, Toby Inkster wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 10:47 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
>> I don't understand how one would reuse the http: scheme in this  
>> way in
>> order to connect to 'example.com' as both an HTTP server and a Web
>> Socket server.
>
> The idea is not necessarily to reuse the HTTP protocol - just the URI
> scheme. How to do this is pretty easy and would require very few  
> changes
> to the web sockets API.

It only makes sense to do that if the resources identified for
websockets are the same as those for "http".  That is why xri
was not needed -- it was a simple alias of http space.  I do not
think that is Ian's intention for websockets (although, as Julian
suggested, there is no documentation for that in the spec yet).

....Roy