--- On Tue, 5/1/10, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [BOSH] default port?
> To: "Bidirectional Streams Over Synchronous HTTP" <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday, 5 January, 2010, 9:47 PM
> On 12/30/09 8:35 AM, Mridul
> Muralidharan wrote:
> > Regarding port : Shouldn't this not be best left to
> deployment ? BOSH
> > is essentially riding on top of http - and so the IANA
> registeration
> > would be applicable to http and not BOSH, right ? 
> 
> Well, port 5280 is registered now. :) But it applies to
> BOSH uses of
> HTTP, not HTTP itself. Not everything needs to go over port
> 80 (or 443)
> and IETF people are working to discourage that these days.


Yep, I saw in the other list that I was too late in responding to this :-)


> 
> > It could (would in
> > some deployment bundles) typically be colocated with a
> bunch of other
> > webapps - which would be http apps.
> 
> It could, but typically it isn't. Registering the port
> doesn't mean you
> can't use any other port, naturally (the same as for XMPP
> over TCP).


Usually, same origin client side constraints apply : so the bosh client 
artifacts would anyway need to be served off that port - making it a 'full 
fledged' http instance.

As opposed to services on top of http (rest, soap, etc) - which is where ietf 
tries to split (iirc), things are slightly more involved in this case probably.


Regards,
Mridul

> 
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