Re: websocket HTTP response parsing

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