Re: [hybi] Versioning is a anti-pattern

[Adam Barth <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:41 PM, "Martin J. Dürst"
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> On 2010/09/04 11:06, Adam Barth wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Daniel Stenberg<[e-mail]>  wrote:
>>> On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Adam Barth wrote:
>>>> Please don't add versioning to the protocol.  Versioning is a
>>>> anti-pattern
>>>> for the web.
>>>
>>> We've seen this mentioned before on this list but without a lot of
>>> clarifications and I'm curious:
>>>
>>> What are the other transfer protocols for which versioning have failed so
>>> significantly that versioning in protocols can be called an anti-pattern?
>>
>> Versioning has been a big pain point for TLS.  Here's a presentation
>> that outlines some recent implementation experience:
>>
>> http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/65/slides/tls-6.pdf
>>
>> I encourage you to read through the presentation (it's pretty short).
>
> This is indeed discouraging. TLS server side implementers seem to be rather
> challenged. For a security-related protocol, that's rather bad indeed. I
> very much hope WS implementers can do a better job.

I wish you the best of luck.  I'm not optimistic that WebSocket
servers will have a higher implementation quality than TLS servers.

Adam