Re: Websockets

Martin Atkins wrote:
> On 09/17/2012 07:07 AM, Evan Prodromou wrote:
>> Has anyone else looked into using Websockets for server-to-server
>> distribution of activities?
>>
>> Seems like it could be very efficient.
>>
>
> I'm curious to hear what advantages you consider Websockets to have 
> over tranditional sockets. Aside from the explicit message framing, is 
> there any functional difference beyond a bare TCP socket?

Ummm... how would you open a raw TCP socket from JavaScript? (I'd really 
like to be able to, and the original websocket spec allowed it, but that 
functionality went away somewhere down the line.)




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Received on Monday, 17 September 2012 18:38:45 UTC