Re: [hybi] #1: HTTP Compliance

[Willy Tarreau <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 02:50:34AM -0400, John Tamplin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Ian Hickson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > I see no advantage in the common case to using the same software for both.
> > It's far easier to just host them separately.
> >
> > Why don't people use the same software for HTTP and DNS? Or IMAP and SMTP?
> > Or IRC and FTP? Why would they act differently for HTTP and WebSocket?
> 
> 
> Few people serve their web apps from a DNS server.  Initially, virtually all
> WebSocket clients are going to be JS applications downloaded via HTTP.  If I
> am writing a JS game to be run in the browser, why would I want to maintain
> two servers instead of one?  Using Jetty (and I would expect most other
> servers to add support once the protocol is standardized), I can just add
> another method on my servlet and presto, I have WebSocket support.  This is
> especially important if the fallback is going to be hanging gets or polling
> via HTTP -- I can have common code for either solution, rather than
> duplicating code that runs in two separate servers, and it gets me the
> ability to more easily share state between HTTP requests and WebSocket
> messages, such as authentication credentials.

In fact, it seems clear that everyone understands how WS is going to be
used, except one person. Unfortunately, that person is the editor :-(

Willy