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Re: [Uri-review] ws: and wss: schemes

"Daniel R. Tobias" <dan@tobias.name> Sat, 05 September 2009 17:58 UTC

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On 5 Sep 2009 at 17:04, Toby Inkster wrote:

> In particular, you in your role as authority are free to decree that  
> this:
> 
> 	http://websockets.net/example.com/foo
> 
> Represents a Web Sockets path of "/foo" running on port 81 of the  
> host example.com.

...which reminds me of Abraham Lincoln declaring that a tail is a 
leg, and asking how many legs a horse has... for which the answer is 
still four, because a tail doesn't become a leg even if somebody in 
"authority" says so.


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