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

"Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> Thu, 10 September 2009 06:55 UTC

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Sorry to be very late with this.

On 2009/08/12 19:15, Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
>   1.  Encouraging the user to enter a Web Sockets URL does not make sense if
> cross-domain connections are not allowed, which I hope will be the case (the
> draft specification [1] does not contain security considerations).

Could it be that the URI/IRI entered is sent to a server, where there 
are no cross-domain restrictions?

>   2.  While we are at it, a Web Sockets connection is useless without knowing
> the protocol, and the protocol to be used is not contained within the URL.
> That means a ws URL is not self-contained and thus useless as a stand-alone
> locator.

My understanding is that there is a Web Sockets protocol.

Regards,   Martin.

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