On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Zhong Yu wrote: > > If a client app connects to a server through WebSocket API, and server > sends a close frame, how is the client app notified?
You get a 'close' event on the WebSocket object. > Does the client stack automatically respond with a close frame, then > raise a "close" event? Whether a close frame is sent or not depends on various things, e.g. whether one was received from the server. > Meanwhile, if the client app is invoking send() while the server close > frame arrives, what happens? The paragraph about "bufferedAmount" > implies that send() won't fail, is that correct? Since the processing of an incoming close frame is handled in a task, it cannot be synchronous with a send() call. For specific details, see the exact algorithm described here: http://www.whatwg.org/html/#dom-websocket-send HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'