[hybi] Races in websocket API?

[Greg Wilkins <[e-mail]>]

Is there a race in the websocket API.

When you do:

  var ws = new WebSocket("ws://mysite.com","myprotocol");

then the spec says:

   Return a new WebSocket object, and continue these steps in the
   background (without blocking scripts).

   Establish a Web Socket connection to a host host, on port port
   (if one was specified), from origin, with the flag secure, with
   resource name as the resource name, and with protocol as the
   protocol (if it is present).


So if the next line in the script is

  ws.onopen=myopenfunc;

there is a race between if the onopen function will
be assigned and if the background connection has been established?

OK it is currently unlikely that the connect will happen that
quick - however if I'm running in a rhino test environment
or a on a browser that is multiplexing the websocket onto an
already existing connection, then the onopen may indeed be fast.

Similar races exist for onmessage and onclose.  Setting onmessage
might miss a message that is delivered quickly after the websocket
is opened.


regards