Re: [hybi] NAT reset recovery? Was: Extensibility mechanisms?

Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> Mon, 19 April 2010 21:19 UTC

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Markus.Isomaki@nokia.com wrote:

> Hmm... Even if the protocol as a whole is asynchronous (both ends can generate frames at any time), isn't it still possible to exchange requests and responses as well over the same transport connection?

Another niceness of having request/response KA's on the async connection is
that it gives us a cheap and simple form of message acknowledgement.

If we receive a response to a KA, then we know that all messages
sent prior to the KA request have been delivered to the other endpoint.


cheers