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Re: [hybi] web socket protocol in "last call"?

Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Sun, 01 November 2009 20:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] web socket protocol in "last call"?
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On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Mike Dierken wrote:
>
> I had one small question about "[..] the latency involved in having to 
> establish new TCP connections for each HTTP message is non-existent in 
> WebSocket". I know that you know that persistent HTTP 1.1 connections 
> reduce the number of times an open/close of a connection would occur, so 
> I was curious what's actually happening that connections are created for 
> each request. (Not that I think the answer will or should change 
> anything to do with WebSockets, just a curiousity sort of thing).

Non-idempotent messages have to be sent using POST, which cannot be 
pipelined in practice.

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