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Re: [hybi] WebSocket subprotocol parameters

"Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> Tue, 21 January 2014 09:17 UTC

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Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "hybi@ietf.org" <hybi@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [hybi] WebSocket subprotocol parameters
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On 2014/01/21 0:58, Peter Thorson wrote:
> My impression was that subprotocol primarily changed the interpretation of messages payloads by the end applications themselves. WebSocket messages allow essentially arbitrary data so you can define whatever parameter setting mechanism you like with whatever grammar makes sense for your subprotocol and send the parameters in the opening “hello” message. Defining a grammar in the socket spec to allow application protocols to configure themselves seems limiting and out of scope.

Yes indeed. It has always been my impression that even subprotocols 
themselves are rather unnecessary. On the server side, just use a 
different URI/IRI as endpoint. On the client side, it's all JS anyway.

Regards,   Martin.

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