On 16/02/2012 11:42 a.m., Dave Cridland wrote:
On Wed Feb 15 22:36:06 2012, Giovanni Panozzo wrote:
Il 15/02/2012 22:28, Adrien de Croy ha scritto:
having dealt with support issues relating primarily to HTTP for the
last
17 years, I'd STRONGLY recommend against using anything HTTP based. The
number of proxies that break WebDAV makes it problematic alone.
If some clients need HTTP-based access to some IMAP function, they can
use a gateway.
Such a gateway should be a mandatory part of the protocol, or we will
end up on having a lot of servers with the http gateway and many
other servers without it, really bad user experience.
Could we think a "skype-like" solution, where the client makes two
attempts:
1) Direct socket connection on a single TCP port
and then, in case of failure
2) https tunnel of the same protocol (thru optional client side proxy).
https is more likely to survive across proxyes than http.
BOSH.
long polling is a hideous hack. Proxies hate it.
It's basically designing a system to provide a TCP over multiple HTTP
over TCP connections. Bloat to the extreme.
I understand the reasons why it exist, due to the model of HTTP, but
building more things on top of it heading in the wrong direction IMO.
Dave.
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