Re: [hybi] Framing Take VI (a compromise proposal)

[Greg Wilkins <[e-mail]>]

John,

you don't exactly have what I'm proposing.


Consider the following two independent ws connections

connection 1:
   op=text data=Hello World
   op=binary data=9ab39129def329432993
   op=test data=goodbye

connection 2:

   op=text data=One
   op=binary data=2222222222222
   op=text data=three


A hypothetical MUX extension might merge those connections as:

   op=extended ext=MUX(channel=1,type=text) data=Hello World
   op=extended ext=MUX(channel=2,type=text) data=One
   op=extended ext=MUX(channel=1,type=binary)  data=9ab39129def329432993
   op=extended ext=MUX(channel=2,type=binary)  data=2222222222222
   op=extended ext=MUX(channel=2,type=text)  data=three
   op=extended ext=MUX(channel=1,type=text)  data=goodbye



On 17 August 2010 00:51, John Tamplin <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Maybe a compromise would be to define an opcode EXTENDED_FRAME, and for that
> opcode the n bytes (however many we want to allocate) are an extension ID,
> and the rest are extension-defined (which might include data from multiple
> logical channels, for example, so it would need multiple frame
> types/lengths).

that's more or less what I'm proposing.  Although I think of it more
as using something similar to Ian Fette's proposal for extension data,
but only for 1 op code.



> Also note that you were previously suggesting moving the message length
> field to the extension data -- that wouldn't be possible if we do away with
> extension data and instead make it an opcode.  So, I assume that means we
> would keep the message length as defined in the current proposal.

It could still be done as an extension.  Eg the message

   op=text data=Hello World

might be fragmented as

  op=text frag=1 data=Hello
  op=text frag=0 data= World

If you wanted to send the message length, you might send

 op=extension frag=1 ext=META-DATA(byte-length=11, char-length=11,
content-type=text/plain) data=Hello
 op=text frag=0 data= World

Or if you wanted to preserve the ability of intermediaries to see the
data you could send:

 op=extension frag=1 ext=META-DATA(byte-length=11, char-length=11,
content-type=text/plain)
 op=text frag=1 data=Hello
 op=text frag=0 data= World


Or if you wanted to hide the data from intermediaries that didn't know
the extension

 op=extension frag=1 ext=META-DATA(byte-length=11, char-length=11,
content-type=text/plain) data=Hello
 op=extension frag=0 ext= data= World



cheers