Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> Wed, 27 July 2011 07:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard
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On Wed Jul 27 02:28:06 2011, Mark Andrews wrote:
> Billions of dollars have been wasted globally for the sake of a few  
> hours
> work by webbrowser vendors.

Seems to be a recurring theme - browsers could have easily performed  
probe tests to check for vulnerable proxies and disabled WebSockets  
(or negotiated masking), but that was ruled out long ago.

Dave.
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