Re: [hybi] Interface for Large Frames

Philipp Serafin <phil127@gmail.com> Thu, 23 June 2011 11:25 UTC

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>> Requiring maximum frame size buffers per connection may also present 
>> scaling problems.
> At the end, someone will buffer, or the websocket engine or the
> application level. I think a checked websocket implementation will
> buffer better than an application on top of it so, the scaling problem,
> if present, will affect both methods...

Hasn't XMLHTTPRequest basically the same problem?
The current JS API for XHR makes it necessary for a browser to buffer
the complete response before passing it on to the JS layer. There also
don't seem to be any clear restrictions on the maximum size of a
resource fetched via XHR.
Maybe it could be useful to see how current browsers handle the edge
case of very large XHR responses?

Regards