Re: [hybi] Fwd: Web sockets and existing HTTP stacks

Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@gmail.com> Fri, 20 November 2009 16:50 UTC

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From: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@gmail.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
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Subject: Re: [hybi] Fwd: Web sockets and existing HTTP stacks
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote:
> This has been the cause of quite some discussion on this list.
>
> The main spec editor believes WebSocket should intentionally fail when
> encountering a proxy etc. and the web application should fall back to
> some other method in that case, or simply not support those cases.

Well, I'd support that view since it simplifies implementation a lot
:) But a lot of people are using proxies... And the spec in its
current form does require dealing with proxies.

-christian