Re: [hybi] WebSocket, TLS and intermediaries

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Wed, 21 July 2010 06:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] WebSocket, TLS and intermediaries
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On 21.07.2010 02:01, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> ...
> Also, in practice it does not seem to be the case that intermediaries
> are updated faster than clients or servers. One of the challenges to
> deploying new protocols or protocol features is old intermediaries that
> are not updated.
> ...

The same has been said about clients (IE6) and servers (Apache httpd 
prior to implementing DefaultType None) just within a week :-)