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Re: [hybi] Ping/Pong body (was Re: TSV-Directorate review of draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-07)

Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com> Thu, 19 May 2011 01:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Ping/Pong body (was Re: TSV-Directorate review of draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-07)
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On 19 May 2011 10:43, Piotr Kulaga <piotrku@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Personally I do not see any point of allowing multiple outstanding pings. If
> a sender did not get a response to first of them, sending another one
> probably will not increase its chances. To me, saying that only one ping is
> allowed is a simplification of the protocol which does not limit protocol’s
> functionality.


I agree that multiple outstanding pings do not initially appear useful.

But then I don't see why we need to restrict it to only 1.    Either
it will not have a use and thus nobody will send multiple pings,  or
somebody will discover a use and we should let them.


cheers

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