Re: [hybi] max frame size, was: frame length encoding

Brian <theturtle32@gmail.com> Sun, 22 August 2010 23:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] max frame size, was: frame length encoding
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On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Pieter Hintjens <ph@imatix.com> wrote:

> It's also naive to claim that WebSockets is only for JavaScript, only
> for dumb browsers, only for medium size data.  We're designing "TCP
> over HTTP" in a real sense and there are generations of applications
> that will use this, way beyond today's use cases.  Please, think of
> the children!
>
>
Indeed... But not entirely.  What we're attempting to build is more like a
single TCP connection, rather than the whole of TCP.  We're not concerning
ourselves with things like src/dest port numbers, etc.  We can leverage TCP
itself for a lot of things.

Brian