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Re: [hybi] IESG note?, was: Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

Greg Longtin <gregl.msp@gmail.com> Tue, 06 September 2011 18:09 UTC

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Richard,

> To put it in a more succinct, more alarmist way: How long will it be
> before WebSockets become popular for malware distribution?

For traffic *from* client to server?  Seems odd.

As to traffic from server to client, that isn't masked, and hence, a
firewall could parse and scan it...

Greg Longtin

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