Re: [rtcweb] URIs for rtcweb "calls"

"Timothy B. Terriberry" <tterriberry@mozilla.com> Sun, 14 August 2011 11:45 UTC

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> rtc-web context.  That would still fire up the full game context,
> slotting the user into the game (rather than making a phone call).

By "full game context" do you mean it would somehow load an http webpage 
with HTML+CSS+JS to handle the signaling? If that's the case, what 
advantages does this offer over normal http[s] URLs (with a path to the 
necessary page and parameters, etc. needed to carry sufficient 
information to establish the session). That certainly seems to already 
cover the case of, "A URI that I could use to paste into a chat window." 
How does it handle all the things that an http[s] URL already provides 
(port, path, caching, proxies, all the associated services built around 
http (e.g. bit.ly), etc.)?

If that's not the case, what do you mean by "context"?