Re: [hybi] Proposed Charter for HyBi WG (rev.3)

[Martin Tyler <[e-mail]>]

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On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Greg Wilkins <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> With that work, none of my clients have ever asked:
>
>  Can you reduce latency from 150ms to 50ms
>  Can you reduce the verbosity of the HTTP headers you send
>  Can you reduce the verbosity of the bayeux protocol (it is verbose, but
>  it can be compressed).
>

Some of our customers ask the first question. They also ask about message
size, but not specifically about HTTP headers or anything.

To Ian:
The kilobytes of headers I have not seen and I very much doubt any
implementation would be sending the same amount of headers on each
WebSocket/BWTP message that they do for an individual HTTP request. It's
likely to be a mime type, and optional at that, so no overhead at all if all
your messages are the same mime type


> These have just not been significant issues.
>
> What they have asked for is:
>
>  Can this work through our existing network infrastructure, load balancers
> etc.
>  Can we layer our special version of OAUTH on top.
>  Can we encrypt/sign messages without SSL
>  How can we increase the number of users connected per node.
>  Our carrier is charging us per connection - can we reduce connection
> usage.
>  How do we know this message was delivered.
>  Why are connections being closed by the "network"
>
>
>
Yes, these are all valid questions which we have to deal with too. Network
infrastructure can be a biggie, and anything we can do to make it work with
existing infrastructure would be great, rather than saying 'disconnect'