Re: Should send() be able to take an ArrayBufferView?

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:16:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4F862CF7.6000806@mit.edu> To: Kenneth Russell <kbr@google.com> CC: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Friday, 17 January 2020 18:13:33 UTC

On 4/11/12 5:54 PM, Kenneth Russell wrote:
>> I haven't looked at WebSocket in enough detail to comment intelligently on
>> it.
>
> I haven't really either, but if there were some peer-to-peer support,
> then the receiving peer should still get an ArrayBuffer even if the
> sender sent an ArrayBufferView.

That would make sense to me, yes.  The receiver is just getting a byte 
array with no structure imposed on it, no matter where those bytes came 
from.

-Boris