[whatwg] Issues with Web Sockets API

[Darin Fisher]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Drew Wilson <atwilson at google.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:11 PM, James Robinson <jamesr at google.com> wrote:
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>> Forcing applications to build their own send/ack functionality would be
>> pretty tragic considering that WebSockets are built on top of TCP.
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>> - James
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> Every time I've written a response/reply protocol on TCP I've needed to put
> in my own acks - how else do you know your message has been delivered to the
> remote app layer?
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This seems especially true given that WebSocket connections may be proxied.

-Darin



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> One could argue that WebSockets should do this for you, but I like leaving
> this up to the app as it gives them more flexibility.
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> -atw
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