Bryce/Simon/Joe - do you guys remember what the issue was with the WebSockets branch?
On 2/29/12 7:26 AM, "Marlin Mixon" <[email protected]> wrote: >Obviously it would be important to find out what the security issue(s) >are before embarking. It looks like what I would do is refactor by >forking the current master release then insert code from the old >WebSockets branch and make changes as needed to make it work with the >newer code. Finding relevant code in the WebSockets branch might be >an issue but it doesn't seem too hard a task. > >On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Filip Maj <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hey Marlin, >> >> Thanks for joining the mailing list and starting discussion. >> >> One thing that may put you on the right track is actually a branch we >>have >> that implements WebSockets for the Android Cordova implementation :) >> >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-cordova-android/tree/WebSockets >> >> >> It is about a year behind in terms of upstream commits, so certainly a >>lot >> of work needs to be done, but I think 95% of the work is there. >> >> This branch was slated for introduction into master but never made it >>due >> to a security issue that came up (the details escape me - maybe someone >> else from the list can bring the light the original reason). Not sure >> whether or not that was resolved. I think it was due to some standards >> body declaring that some revision of the web sockets spec was >>incomplete? >> Something along those lines.
