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

[Ian Hickson <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, David Booth wrote:
>
> This looks to me like a perfect example of a case where a new scheme is
> not needed, as the same thing can be accomplished by defining an http
> URI prefix, as described in "Converting New URI Schemes or URN
> Sub-Schemes to HTTP":
> http://dbooth.org/2006/urn2http/
> Note that I am talking about the *scheme*, not the protocol.  In
> essence, a URI prefix such as "http://wss.example/" can be defined that
> would serve the same purpose as a "wss:" scheme: an agent that
> recognizes this prefix will know to attempt the WSS protocol.  But an
> agent that doesn't *might* still be able to fall back to doing something
> useful with the URI if it were an http URI, whereas it couldn't if it
> were a "wss:" URI.

This is only expected to be used from a WebSocket API call. What fallback 
behaviour did you have in mind?

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