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Re: [hybi] Intermediaries and idle connections (was Re: Technical feedback.)

Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> Sun, 31 January 2010 00:43 UTC

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Justin Erenkrantz wrote:

> On the server side, I can't even begin to think of the contortions
> we'd have to add to httpd to get it to recognize a specific byte
> pattern *on port 80*.  

The difficulty on the server side is that you don't even know it
is a websocket upgrade request until you have already parsed
it (using the lenient parsers that most HTTP servers have).

So you then have to re-parse it to check the exact byte order!

cheers

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