Re: [xmpp] See-other-uri and insecure web sockets

Ben Campbell <ben@nostrum.com> Wed, 05 March 2014 09:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: [xmpp] See-other-uri and insecure web sockets
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On Mar 5, 2014, at 1:42 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:

>> 
>> Well, you need to do *something* if someone tries to connect to <ws://websocketserver.example/xmpp-bind>, but I guess responding with 301 or 404 to the HTTP handshake, prior to protocol handover, would be better than switching to xmpp and then using see-other-uri.
> 
> Yes, I think that's the better approach - the earlier the better.

Does that mean we don't need see-other-uri at all?