WebSockets -- only TCP?

2012-03-18 Thread Rick van Rein
Hello, I would like to comment on the current (20120313) WebSockets specification. The text sounds to me like it implicitly assumes that all protocols are run over TCP. It could be said that the choice of URL makes it sufficiently general to include UDP (and possibly SCTP), but the usage of

Re: WebSockets -- only TCP?

2012-03-18 Thread Glenn Adams
RFC 6455 defines WSP as a TCP protocol [1] [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455#section-1.5 at present the WebSocket API is nothing more than a thin layer over WSP, and references WSP for all protocol bindings; there is no discarding of UDP involved; it simply is/was not a requirement driving

Re: WebSockets -- only TCP?

2012-03-18 Thread Simon Pieters
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:28:54 +0100, Rick van Rein r...@openfortress.nl wrote: Hello, I would like to comment on the current (20120313) WebSockets specification. The text sounds to me like it implicitly assumes that all protocols are run over TCP. It could be said that the choice of URL