Re: END_SEGMENT? (#397)

On 2014–07–01, at 1:01 AM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30 June 2014 09:54, David Krauss <potswa@gmail.com> wrote:
>> “Tackle”? It’s an editorial issue, and reviewing GitHub it essentially boils down to specifying what sort of flush should occur.
>> 
>> I don’t think anyone’s talking about removing END_SEGMENT or WebSocket support. It’s essential to interactive applications, including the sort of things that WebSockets often does. This is something all proxies should handle going forward.
> 
> I think that people are.  From some perspectives, END_SEGMENT is cruft
> and WebSocket support isn't present.  From the other perspective,
> thewebsocketprotocol can be shoehorned in and that's good enough.

Special-purpose proxies can ignore any part of the protocol that their designer knows will not occur in the local environment. It’s not a normative issue.

Fully conforming proxies should support interactive applications.

Received on Monday, 30 June 2014 17:06:38 UTC