[whatwg] WebSockets: what to do when there are too many open connections

[Ashley Sheridan]

On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 11:01 -0700, Ojan Vafai wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Simon Pieters <simonp at 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


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