- From: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:48:40 -0700
- To: public-fedsocweb@w3.org
On 09/17/2012 11:38 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > 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.) > This discussion is about server-to-server communication, so opening a TCP socket shouldn't be a problem regardless of implementation language.
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