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Re: [hybi] An alternative design for the web socket handshake

Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Thu, 13 May 2010 21:15 UTC

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From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
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Subject: Re: [hybi] An alternative design for the web socket handshake
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On Thu, 13 May 2010, Adam Barth wrote:
> 
> Instead of basing the web socket handshake on HTTP, we should base the
> handshake on TLS.

This would require the hypothetical hobbyist implementing from scratch to 
use a TLS library rather than just using the sockets API directly. I think 
this is an unacceptable increase in complexity.

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