Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard
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Subject: Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard
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On Thu Jul 21 23:15:59 2011, Bruce Atherton wrote: > So if you have no control over the DNS, it is not a problem. The > host will be resolved exactly the same way as it is now, using a > hosts file or A record or whatever. The only change is that the > client is required to try to use the more advanced mechanism if it > is available. > > Right. > I admit that I find it a little troubling to use MUST for the > client to follow this procedure as there is a burden on > implementers to understand how to code this since it isn't done by > default in the standard libraries the way that ordinary name > resolution is. Making it the recognized best practice with a SHOULD > would be preferable all else being equal. > > SRV lookup is pretty commonplace now in libraries. XMPP and SIP clients have no difficulty finding this functionality in a wide variety of environments. For the web, where there are substantially fewer web browsers than there are XMPP clients, I don't think this would pose any kind of problem. > It can be argued that not using a MUST may well open up > interoperability problems because some Websockets clients contact > the wrong host. However, keep in mind that in the older SIP RFC2543 > it provided two resolution mechanisms. It specified that clients > SHOULD look up address records, but MAY use the DNS SRV mechanism. > SIP survived that without too much of a hassle. And specifying that > Websockets clients SHOULD use DNS SRV, but MAY use address records > alone looks like an improvement. > > SIP survived because it was very small. I don't see WS making a transition, in the same way that repeated attempts have failed to move HTTP to SRV. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:dave@cridland.net - xmpp:dwd@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade
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