Re: [hybi] Frame size

["Thomson, Martin" <[e-mail]>]

> > IF used for UTF-8 AND implementer counts characters instead of octets
> > THEN framing doesn't work. [...] One solution to this problem is to
> > start a frame with a known sequence of octets, so that this can be
> > detected.
> 
> That's an interesting approach, but I worry that anything hardcoded
> like
> this would be handled in ways that defeat the purpose. This is why, for
> instance, the proposed handshake uses unpredictable keys to force the
> server to prove it read the handshake -- otherwise, servers written by
> amateurs might not actually read the handshake but just send back the
> right response, simply assuming the handshake came from a Web Socket
> server. 

You could complicate this if you like.  Perhaps each "fixed" sequence is based on the output of a pseudorandom sequence, the seed to which is assigned in the handshake.  I'd like to better understand what this is buying though.*

--Martin

* ...just as I would like to understand the same for the handshake.