Re: [hybi] Encourage disabling Nagle in the standard text?

Jacob Champion <champion.p@gmail.com> Wed, 19 April 2017 04:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Encourage disabling Nagle in the standard text?
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On 04/18/2017 07:57 PM, Andy Green wrote:
> libwebsockets always disables Nagle...

mod_websocket does too, simply because httpd disables it for all
connections.

> AFAIK there is no value to it for general ws use. But I dunno it
> needs the standard changing, if things have higher than expected
> latencies people will probably work it out for themselves.

Yeah. Seems like it would be subprotocol-specific... if I write a Telnet
clone over WebSocket, suddenly Nagle might make a lot of sense. But I'd
have to make sure to TCP_CORK my control frames so that they got flushed
through.

See also https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/hybi/current/msg06895.html .

--Jacob