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Re: [hybi] WS ABNF

Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> Wed, 17 February 2010 12:26 UTC

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Dave Cridland wrote:

> I'll look forward to you explaining to people that a bigint library is
> mandatory for websocket implementation.

Actually that is a very good argument as it goes directly to one
of the oft stated design goals of websocket - that it is easy to implement.

The requirement for an unlimited integer length (or just for the need
to impose a limit in the middle of a loop that reads the value), it
is directly contradictory to this design goal.


regards

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