Re: [hybi] Criteria for evaluating handshake proposals

[Scott Ferguson <[e-mail]>]

Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:23:31PM +0000, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>   
>> I hope this is not going to turn into a lengthy debate, but I would like 
>> to understand what people care about when comparing different handshake 
>> proposals.
>> "Should use the minimal number of round trips" is one thing I've heard 
>> on the mailing list.
>> What are other things people care about?
>>     
>
> - Security
> - Protocol compliance
> - Compatibility with existing infrastructure, including the ability to
>   route a request through various levels of reverse-proxies.
>   

 - non-impact on pure HTTP server processing (primarily as performance). 
Adding WebSockets support shouldn't harm the non-websocket HTTP processing.

 - compatibility with existing configuration, management, security 
policy, access logging frameworks on the server/proxy end (minimal 
admin/management impacts, and not requiring an entire new management model)

If WebSockets is a separate port, the 2nd point can be modified or weakened.

-- Scott

> Regards,
> Willy
>
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