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Re: [hybi] Adding clarification regarding future revisions (Was: Proposed way forward for WebSockets)

Simone Bordet <simone.bordet@gmail.com> Tue, 27 July 2010 07:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Adding clarification regarding future revisions (Was: Proposed way forward for WebSockets)
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Hi,

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:13, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>> And BTW, saying "Upgrade: WebSocket/1.0" would be *a lot* better than
>> "Upgrade: WebSocket".
>
> Not having a version field is intentional. Versioning is an anti-pattern
> on the Web.

Could you elaborate on why "Versioning is an anti-pattern on the Web" ?
As already stated by others many -- if not all -- web (and non web)
protocols do have a version "field" that helped their evolution.
Why WebSocket would be damaged by versioning ?

Simon
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