On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Alexandre Morgaut wrote:
This is my first post to this list ;-)
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I looked over libcurl supported protocols and the roadmap and I didn't found any reference about the Web Socket protocol (created from HTML5 WebSockets)
Right, we don't really have any set roadmap for the future. We have a list of random ideas in the docs/TODO file but none of us are particularly guided by that. We're open for discussions around what to add and what to work on etc so I wholeheartedly welcome this thread here!
I personally am familiar with WebSockets and the work going on in the IETF with it - I'm susbcribed to the list and I track what's happening there.
It is being more and more implemented by browsers so I wanted to know if we could hope to use it via libcurl
I'm not sure I see how it would be used or supported by libcurl. libcurl provides application layer protocols, that are typically on top of the transport layer: TCP or UDP. libcurl transfers data specified by URLs, back and forth.
WebSockets is also on top of TCP, but it is a "mere" transport layer. It is only made to transport data of whatever kind. It's generic! What would libcurl do with it? I'm not killing the idea, I just don't see what libcurl would do with it!
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