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Re: [hybi] Intermediaries and idle connections (was Re: Technical feedback.)

Justin Erenkrantz <justin@erenkrantz.com> Mon, 01 February 2010 05:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Intermediaries and idle connections (was Re: Technical feedback.)
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:
> OTOH just the special status line ("HTTP/1.1 101 Web Socket Protocol Handshake") guarantees this. Would it be reasonable to limit the hardcoded part of the handshake to the status line?

If we are under HTTP/1.1 rules, then there are two points against this:

 - The status reason should always be completely arbitrary.  The
status code is the only relevant bit.

 - The protocol actually being upgraded to is indicated in the Upgrade
response header.

HTH.  -- justin

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