Re: [hybi] #1: HTTP Compliance

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 22 July 2010 06:53 UTC

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On 22.07.2010 08:32, Ian Hickson wrote:
> ...
> Why don't people use the same software for HTTP and DNS? Or IMAP and SMTP?
> Or IRC and FTP? Why would they act differently for HTTP and WebSocket?
> ...

Because the Websocket connection is usually launched from a browser, 
thus bootstrapped from an HTML/Web application, and very likely wants to 
share data with that web app?

Best regards, Julian