On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:32 PM, Graham Leggett wrote: > On 30 Mar 2011, at 10:49 AM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >> On Mar 29, 2011, at 11:16 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >> >>> Do you have an internet draft spec for some context here? Is there a >>> proposal for HTTP/2.0? >> >> websockets > > In theory, over and above natively supporting websockets, it may be useful to > teach mod_proxy how to reverse proxy the ws scheme to another websockets > server. Would a module like mod_proxy_websockets or mod_proxy_ws make sense?
No, websockets is not designed to work with intermediaries. There is no standard behavior beyond opening the connection, so connections through proxies should use CONNECT. I am not planning to implement websockets -- I just want to protect the rest of the server from kids playing with toys. ....Roy
