On 1/5/10 3:19 PM, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:
> 
> --- On Wed, 6/1/10, 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: Wednesday, 6 January, 2010, 3:44 AM
>> On 1/5/10 3:12 PM, Mridul
>> Muralidharan wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>> I'm confused. How do same origin policies mandate port 80?
> 
> 
> 
> It does not mandate port 80.
> If we say port xyz is for BOSH - then the client artifacts should also come 
> from the same port xyz (js files, etc - xhr constraints iirc).

If client artifacts come from the server, sure. That's not always the
case for BOSH clients.

> So the port is not restricted to servicing only bosh requests, but also 
> general http serving requests.

Some HTTP serving requests, yes -- I don't know if I'd call it "general"
(no one is going to host a website at port 5280 just for fun).

Peter

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