[webkit-dev] Staging WebSocket protocol deployment

[Jeremy Orlow]

*cc'ing others involved in WebSockets (server and client side)

I'm not very familiar with the IETF's efforts, but my understanding is that
they were creating a competing protocol.  Are they in fact creating
something that they want to submit as a replacement to WebSockets?  If so,
why is WebSockets moving to last call?

I'm not necessarily against this change, just confused by it.
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org> wrote:

>
> While WebSocket API is fairly stable, the discussion of underlying protocol
> at IETF is far from being done. It could be disruptive to ship our WebSocket
> implementation in a way that would effectively freeze the protocol.
>
> One way to achieve future compatibility is by using a different scheme for
> WebSocket URLs - e.g. "webkit-ws:" and "webkit-wss:" instead of "ws:" and
> "wss:", respectively. Depending on how protocol standardization goes, we
> could alias these later, or add a separate standards compliant
> implementation.
>
> I'm going to submit a patch to this effect, but would like to discuss the
> idea on the list first.
>
> - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
>
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