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Re: [hybi] WebSocket, TLS and intermediaries

Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Wed, 21 July 2010 22:46 UTC

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From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
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Subject: Re: [hybi] WebSocket, TLS and intermediaries
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> 
> In my opinion, to the extent we support intermediaries, the design 
> should require at least one of the client or server to be explicitly 
> aware of the intermediary.

Agreed. I think we should add this to the requirements.


> We should not support magical transparent intermediaries where neither 
> the client nor server has an obvious way to detect its existence; in 
> fact we should design the protocol to prevent such intermediaries from 
> being created.

The only way I can see to do this would be to require TLS (or some 
equivalent asymmetric encryption scheme), which I think is too high a 
cost. Otherwise, in principle, I agree with this too.

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