On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote: > Since none of the browsers I could test reconnect for 500s currently as > far as I can tell, I've changed the spec to not make 5xxs reconnect. The > server load issue seems like a pretty big deal.
Ordinary exponential backoff deals with the server load issue. It doesn't make sense for a transient error to cause the connection to permanently fail. All this does is make web developers do it themselves, which we shouldn't need to deal with. -- Glenn Maynard
