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Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal)

"Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com> Tue, 17 August 2010 22:53 UTC

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From: "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, "ifette@google.com" <ifette@google.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:53:39 +0800
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Subject: Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal)
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Anne writes:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:16:14 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> > 2010/8/12 Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) <ifette@google.com>:
> >>
> >> That said, here's the proposal:
> >
> > This seems overly complex. [...]
> 
> Agreed. I would really like to avoid having so much features in the
> initial deployment.

Just to add another +1.

As I understand it, at the framing layer, all you need is a length count.  Pick a length and run with it, it doesn't really matter how big in the end.  That's all a framing layer really needs.

At the next layer, we can use opcodes to identify frame types:

 0 = this frame contains a message, and that message is binary
 1 = this frame contains a message, and that message is UTF-8 text

It would be possible, technically, to reserve the rest and ship a working protocol.

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