- From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:38:22 -0400
- CC: public-fedsocweb@w3.org
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.) -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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