Re: WebSockets negotiation over HTTP

From: Mark Nottingham <mnot_at_yahoo-inc.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:59:02 +1100

On 13/10/2009, at 10:23 PM, "Ian Hickson" <ian_at_hixie.ch> wrote:

> I want to just use port 80, and I want to make it possible for a
> suitably
> configured HTTP server to pass connections over to WebSocket
> servers. It
> seems to me that using something that looks like an HTTP Upgrade is
> better
> than just having a totally unrelated handshake, but I guess maybe we
> should just reuse port 80 without doing anything HTTP-like at all.

To be clear, upgrade is appropriate for changing an existing
connection over to a new protocol (ie reusing it). To pass a request
over to a different server, a redirect would be more appropriate (and
is facilitated by the new uri scheme).

(Ian I don't have your draft in front of me, so this isnt a comment on
it necessarily, just a general statement).

Cheers,
Received on Tue Oct 13 2009 - 23:00:37 MDT

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