Re: Hello from Mozilla

From: Ian Hickson <ian_at_hixie.ch>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:59:43 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>
> Can you remind me why you need the handshake to look like valid HTTP
> again? I think that's the crux here.

Because in some cases, people will want to share the same port for their
HTTP server as for their WebSocket server. For example, if they want to do
TLS-WebSocket-over-port-443, in the case where that host also has an HTTPS
server on port 443.

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Received on Wed Jul 15 2009 - 07:59:45 MDT

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