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Re: [hybi] Call for interest: multiplexing dedicated for WebSocket

Tobias Oberstein <tobias.oberstein@tavendo.de> Wed, 22 May 2013 17:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Call for interest: multiplexing dedicated for WebSocket
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Am 22.05.2013 18:26, schrieb John A. Tamplin:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Tobias Oberstein
> <tobias.oberstein@tavendo.de <mailto:tobias.oberstein@tavendo.de>> wrote:
>
>     +1 for the simplest possible mux that does the core job.
>
>     However, I currently think that having a per-logical channel flow
>     control is required to make it useful (cannot be dropped for the
>     sake of simplification). I might be wrong.
>
>
> I agree -- without flow control, there is very little benefit, and
> almost nothing that an app couldn't easily do themselves by just adding
> a simple framing layer inside WS messages (perhaps just the first byte
> is a logical channel number).

Regarding implementing flow control above TCP (and below app), I found this:

"Multiplexing on top of TCP in overall fails to deliver the advantages 
it is assumed to provide."

Source: http://www.250bpm.com/multiplexing

Do you have an opinion on that?

More important: what problem exactly does multiplexing solve? The 
current mux RFC mentions "scalability", but doesn't go into detail ..

/Tobias

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> John A. Tamplin

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