Re: [hybi] Reliable message delivery (was Re: Technical feedback.)

"Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> Tue, 02 February 2010 00:07 UTC

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On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:58:54 +0100, Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> wrote:
> But I would think that reasonable error handling should be part
> of the base protocol.  It's like suggesting that 400 Bad Request
> be taken out of HTTP.

Well yes, but WebSockets is not meant to be like HTTP. The idea is to just  
have a simple layer on top of TCP that makes it suitable for deployment in  
Web browsers. I would expect something like SPDY to provide the (far) more  
complex variant.


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