Re: Proposal for API for Data

On Apr 12, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Timothy B. Terriberry wrote:

> Michael Tuexen wrote:
>> If a channel is not in OPEN, I would expect a send() call to fail. However, its return type
>> is void. Why? Or is it intended that the onerror callback is invoked?
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> See this exchange from the whatwg list:
> http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-April/025942.html
> http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-August/027673.html
> 
> As far as I can tell, the onerror callback is only invoked if the UA is required to "fail the connection" or "close the connection with prejudice" (see the last algorithm in this section: http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/#feedback-from-the-protocol), not when sending a message to an already-closed connection.
OK, so what should happen when send() is called on a data channel which is CLOSING or CLOSED?
Buffering the data knowing that it never can be transmitted seems no right to me...

Best regards
Michael
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Received on Thursday, 12 April 2012 09:54:36 UTC