- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:53:50 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > Since WebSockets seem to be talked about recently. I've have a couple > of questions re: the http websocket implementation and https ie wss I'm not sure what you mean by "the http websocket implementation", but I will try to reply to your questions as best I can. > 1. Will wss be able to perform a normal TLS handshake over wss? If I understand your question correctly: yes, in fact it is required to. > 2. Will it be able to send an X.509 certificate down the wire? Is that a feature of TLS? If so, then it should work fine, assuming that there is no need for support for this feature from the protocol tunneled through TLS. > 3. Is it likely that the receiving websocket will be able to access > fields such as SubjectAltName in the certificate? That depends entirely on how the server is architected. I see no reason why it would not be possible. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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