[whatwg] Simon's WebSocket feedback

On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Simon Pieters wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:08:12 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Simon Pieters wrote:
> > > 
> > > WebSocket establish a WebSocket connection:
> > > 
> > > [[
> > > 21. Insert spaces1 U+0020 SPACE characters into key1 at random positions.
> > > 
> > > Insert spaces2 U+0020 SPACE characters into key2 at random positions.
> > > ]]
> > > 
> > > It seems a bit risky to insert spaces at the start and at the end of the
> > > string; I imagine some servers would ignore them (which would be a bug
> > > in the server, but hard to notice since it's random). Maybe we should
> > > avoid inserting them at the start and at the end.
> > 
> > Since key1 and key2 can be numbers in the range 1-9, I don't see how to
> > avoid at least one of those two places.
> 
> You can insert the random characters before inserting the spaces.

Ooh, that's genius. Done.

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