[whatwg] TCPConnection feedback

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Jun 18 14:24:10 PDT 2008


On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Frode Børli wrote:
> 
> Still I do not believe it should have a specific protocol. If a protocol 
> is decided on, and it is allowed to connect to any IP-address - then 
> DDOS attacks can still be performed: If one million web browsers connect 
> to any port on a single server, it does not matter which protocol the 
> client tries to communicate with. The server will still have problems.

You can already do that today using <img>.

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