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Re: [hybi] WebSocket -76 is incompatible with HTTP reverse proxies

"Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com> Wed, 07 July 2010 05:21 UTC

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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:23:22 +0800
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Subject: Re: [hybi] WebSocket -76 is incompatible with HTTP reverse proxies
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> Content-length: 0 also makes sense but it means that the nonce will
> be sent *after* the handshake, which means we'd have a second
> round-trip. 

The round-trip thing is a fallacy.  Just as you can pipeline requests, so can you send extra handshakey parts after the headers.

Solution:  The handshake includes a complete HTTP message, PLUS extra stuff.  All of this is sent at once, but the HTTP stuff stops half way.

This is only true if the extra stuff is dependent on information from the peer, which is not the case in this scenario.

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