On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 11:01 -0700, Ojan Vafai wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Simon Pieters <sim...@opera.com> > wrote: > > establishing a WebSocket connection: > > [[ > Note: There is no limit to the number of established WebSocket > connections a user agent can have with a single remote host. > Servers can refuse to connect users with an excessive number > of connections, or disconnect resource-hogging users when > suffering high load. > ]] > > Still, it seems likely that user agents will want to have > limits on the number of established WebSocket connections, > whether to a single remote host or multiple remote hosts, in a > single tab or overall. > > > > Why? Is the concern that we'd run out of memory? Overload the user's > network connection? > > > Ojan
I would imagine primarily it's out of concern for the remote host. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk