[webkit-dev] Implementing new WebSocket protocol

[Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ)]

FWIW it has settled down. The spec is in last call and isn't changing,
rather we're just arguing over wording, references in the spec, clarifying
text based on implementation experiences and ambiguities implementers have
found, etc.



On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck at jumis.com> wrote:

> **
> That said, you're all lucky that the rest of us developers
> have no idea when the current round of specification flux
> will settle down.
>
> Security vulnerabilities will always trump the specs. Thanks for keeping on
> top of things.
>
> -Charles
>
>
> On 6/23/2011 5:16 PM, Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) wrote:
>
> That said, I don't think the intent should be to support any old versions
> for any protracted amount of time. -00 has security vulnerabilities brought
> up by people on webkit-dev@ so from the Chrome side, we intend not to
> support -00 at all once we have -09 support available. All the makers of
> server-side code have already published versions compatibile with the latest
> draft, and IETF drafts are intended to expire after a fixed amount of time
> (-00 is already well past its expiration date).
>
>  -Ian
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de>wrote:
>
>> On 2011-06-23 17:15, Simon Fraser wrote:
>>
>>> I'm surprised that the protocol has no facility for versioning. Is that
>>> really he case? Should it be considered for future versions of the spec?
>>>
>>
>>  It does.
>>
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>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-09#section-11.11>
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