[whatwg] TCPConnection feedback

Michael Carter michael.carter at kaazing.com
Wed Jun 18 13:11:35 PDT 2008


On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Michael Carter wrote:
> >
> > In that case I agree that the name shouldn't be TCPConnection. I propose
> > SocketConnection instead.
>
> I was thinking WebSocket (with the protocol itself called the Web Socket
> Protocol or Web Socket Communication Protocol or some such).
>

That sounds pretty good. Worth noting is that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_socket suggests that the term "Socket"
doesn't refer to tcp/ip, rather it refers to multiple protocols. You can
have a UDPSocket or an IPSocket just as easily as you could have a
TCPSocket. In this context, neither WebSocket nor SocketConnection really
present a naming problem.

-Michael Carter
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