Re: [hybi] Extensibility mechanisms?

[Justin Erenkrantz <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Ian Hickson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> ideal deployment the connection is wrapped in end-to-end TLS, so the
> intermediaries can't do anything with it. There were only two reasons for

It may be appropriate to say it is end-to-end TLS at an organizational
level (ie user to origin), but my experience is that most reverse
proxy deployments perform TLS termination on the edge of the network
so that load balancing techniques can be applied inside the network
without TLS overhead.  So, I believe it is very unlikely to expect
that there will always be end-to-end TLS at scale - the intermediaries
will be relied upon to provide critical load-balancing and failover
mechanisms even for Web Socket.  -- justin