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

Toby Inkster <mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> Sat, 05 September 2009 16:13 UTC

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Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:04:29 +0100
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Subject: Re: [hybi] [Uri-review] ws: and wss: schemes
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On 4 Sep 2009, at 06:33, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 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. [...]
 >
> That seems like a wild layering violation.

As I understand it, if you, Ian Hickson, own websockets.net, then you  
are the authority for deciding what resources are represented by URIs  
starting with:

	http://websockets.net/

In particular, you in your role as authority are free to decree that  
this:

	http://websockets.net/example.com/foo

Represents a Web Sockets path of "/foo" running on port 81 of the  
host example.com.

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Toby A Inkster
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