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Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Tue, 27 July 2010 07:13 UTC

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From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
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Subject: [hybi] Adding clarification regarding future revisions (Was: Proposed way forward for WebSockets)
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 02:40:40AM -0400, John Tamplin wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Feature negotiation is there, by means of new headers.
> > 
> > If that is the intention, it would be good to state that in the 
> > protocol [...]
> 
> Yes indeed, that should be clarified.

I've added another sentence to the end of the "Design philosophy" section 
to try to explain this in slightly more detail. I don't really know how 
better to clarify it, though. Could you elaborate on exactly what is 
unclear?


> And BTW, saying "Upgrade: WebSocket/1.0" would be *a lot* better than 
> "Upgrade: WebSocket".

Not having a version field is intentional. Versioning is an anti-pattern 
on the Web.

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