Re: [hybi] More feedback on WebSockets

[Ian Hickson <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Greg Wilkins wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> > I disagree that the current handshake isn't like HTTP enough, though. 
> > The request is fully HTTP-compliant. What value would there be in 
> > relaxing the rules on what WebSocket clients should send in the 
> > request? I don't understand the real-world case you are concerned 
> > about.
> 
> What about a load balancer in front of the server that inserts a cookie 
> or X-Forwarded-For header into all HTTP requests that it forwards.
> 
> This will probably be harmless with regards to the subsequent WS 
> connection, but it will break the handshake so there will not be a 
> subsequent WS connection.

How do such load balancers handle pipelining?

If they support them, then that means they are almost certainly 
incompatible with WebSocket, as far as I can tell, and we would _want_ the 
connection to fail.

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