[whatwg] Issues with Web Sockets API

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Alexey Proskuryakov wrote:
> 13.08.2009, в 4:42, Ian Hickson написал(а):
> > > 
> > > A note explaining that the close event will be dispatched at 
> > > server's discretion (or on subsequent connection timeout), 
> > > potentially long time after close() is called, would likely make the 
> > > intention clearer.
> > 
> > It won't be long after the close().
> 
> Why not? My understanding is that it can take arbitrary amount of time - 
> the server can choose not to close its side of connection for years, and 
> to send data over it.

It's unrelated to the server.

You call close(), the UA closes the connection, thus the connection is 
closed, which causes the UA to fire an event.

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