On 12/10/2015 02:45 AM, Bert Huijben wrote:
Websockets are different… and in some ways not really an upgrade of the connection… more like a hostile takeover with a final operation to a target
Ha! Yes -- although from the point of view of HTTP/1.1, all successful upgrades are hostile takeovers, no? But a failure to upgrade is more of a problem for a WebSocket client than a pure-HTTP client.
More like a CONNECT request to a proxy…
Heh, interesting that you mention that. Proxy and cache behavior is, IIRC, the motivation for many of the strange-looking design decisions in the WebSocket protocol...
--Jacob
