Re: [hybi] OPTIONS (was Re: It's time to ship)

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 10.01.2011 00:09, Adam Barth wrote:
> ...
> Whether we use OPTIONS or GET is much less than 1% of the value
> proposition of the WebSockets protocol.  Rather than optimizing that
> part of the protocol, it's more important to pick something and go
> with it.
>
> Honestly, I picked OPTIONS because it was the example given in
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2817.txt.
> ...

OPTIONS isn't special with respect to Upgrade. (*)

My understanding is that the authors picked this example in order to 
avoid to let the server ignore the Upgrade request in GET, and then 
return the contents over an non-secured channel.

Unless there's a specific reason why people think OPTIONS is better than 
GET here, we should stick with what was discussed before.

Best regards, Julian

(*) I may be wrong, in which case we should clarify this in HTTPbis.