Re: [hybi] Experiment comparing Upgrade and CONNECT handshakes

[Greg Wilkins <[e-mail]>]

On 1 December 2010 23:05, John Tamplin <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Ok, so if we took this approach, the proposed draft changes would be to include:
>  - using CONNECT instead of GET+Upgrade

+1 (give it a go at least and see if we can make it not look like an
abomination to those with HTTP eyes).


>  - uses the real host/port in the CONNECT and Host header

To be clear - that would be  something like

      CONNECT server.example.com:80 HTTP/1.1
      Host: server.example.com:80

and not the proposal I made to use a dedicated port (which can be
consider later)


>  - all handshake headers would be normal headers in the HTTP request/response
>  - keys would be included in headers not unframed bytes, with no space encoding

Since the current draft contains only a client nonce and server hash,
I think we should start with the same.   We can then consider if a
server nonce is needed or if neither are.

>  - no masking of headers or payload would take place
>  - no Hello frames

> Is that correct?

It is a good start

> If so, then I agree that would be a good step to see if we can get
> consensus on the less controversial parts before moving on to areas
> where there is more disagreement.

... where there is more agreement yet to be had.

cheers