Re: [hybi] -09: abstract and introduction

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Thu, 16 June 2011 11:18 UTC

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2011/6/16 Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>:
>> I know this has been discussed on the list, but how can an entity
>> discover if WebSocket is offered on ports other than 80/443? Would the
>> web server use a redirect to do that? Could it define SRV records?
>
> I don't think there's any discoverability. You can't know that WebSocket is
> offered on ports 80/443 either. I think the Web page that opens a WebSocket
> is supposed to know which port to use. (The WebSocket API doesn't allow
> redirects.)

Hummm, please, is it not clear that the WebSocket URI schema must be
provided in order to know which transport to use (TLS or TCP) and the
port to connect (80/443 depending the schema, in case no port is
explicitely given in the URI) ??



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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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