Re: [hybi] #1: HTTP Compliance
John Tamplin <jat@google.com> Wed, 21 July 2010 14:15 UTC
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Subject: Re: [hybi] #1: HTTP Compliance
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On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > Ian has claimed that the extra bytes after the request help WebSocket fail > early in the face of unaware proxies, though we do not yet have data showing > this to be the case. We do know that without this, often the handshake will > appear to succeed but transmitting messages will fail, for the network > setups of many users. > > I don't think anyone has indicated a practical problem caused by the extra > bytes. > I believe we have already had a real-world practical case where they did cause a problem: - client sends WebSocket request that goes through a proxy, random bytes are not advertised in the Content-length - proxy doesn't know WebSocket, passes along connection to real server which does implement WebSocket - server waits reading random bytes which were not forwarded - server drops the connection after a timeout Thus the random bytes did succeed in preventing a WebSocket connection across a non-WS compliant proxy, but: 1. the proxy was actually capable of forwarding the connection if the server had completed the request 2. we had to wait for a timeout, so this was not a fast-fail situation 3. the same thing could have been more easily accomplished by having a WS control frame exchanged at startup with similar results without non-compliant random bytes on the wire -- John A. Tamplin Software Engineer (GWT), Google
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- Re: [hybi] #1: HTTP Compliance Maciej Stachowiak
- Re: [hybi] #1: HTTP Compliance Ian Hickson
- Re: [hybi] #1: HTTP Compliance Vladimir Katardjiev
- Re: [hybi] #1: HTTP Compliance Greg Wilkins
- Re: [hybi] #1: HTTP Compliance Greg Wilkins
- Re: [hybi] #1: HTTP Compliance Maciej Stachowiak
- Re: [hybi] #1: HTTP Compliance Ian Hickson
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