- From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:19:26 +0100
- To: Kristof Zelechovski <giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl>
- Cc: 'David Booth' <david@dbooth.org>, 'Ian Hickson' <ian@hixie.ch>, uri-review@ietf.org, hybi@ietf.org, uri@w3.org
Kristof Zelechovski wrote: > 1. The document "Converting New URI Schemes or URN Sub-Schemes to HTTP" > [1] specifically addresses the use case where the custom URL is presented to > a casual user. > > Since there are no legitimate casual users of the Web > Sockets protocol that is designed to be used by Web applications only, I disagree. ws:// URLs *will* be entered on web forms at some point, you can count on it. Someone will write a web form that says something like "Tell me the address of a FOOCHAT server to begin your FOOCHAT session", expecting a ws:// URL to be entered if WebSockets is the protocol to be used. That's a legitimate use. -- Jamie
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