- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:33:16 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > We can't. If the handshake occurs after the first byte sent over the > connection, it would be far too easy for someone to smuggle in a fake > handshake. > > Furthermore, one of our core requirements is the ability to implement a > Web Socket Protocol server without any HTTP server involvement, and so we > can't build this on HTTP. I was asking to *relax* the server requirements (by allowing the server to return variants of the response that are equivalent from an HTTP point of view) -- how would that make a server implementation harder? BR, Julian
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