Re: [hybi] header field ABNF, was: I-D Action: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-11.txt

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Wed, 24 August 2011 17:40 UTC

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On 8/24/11 10:12 AM, Gabriel Montenegro wrote:
> Agree with Julian. We cannot have a normative reference to HTTPbis.

Well, we could, but we don't want to. :-) If we did, the Websocket spec
wouldn't be published until the HTTPbis specs are published (probably
sometime in 2012 if all goes well). We'll be hard at work on WS 1.1 by
then. ;-)

Peter

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