First off, thanks to Dan Simpson and Nick Zadrozny for the cool intro talk on the emerging WebSocket technology.
For those interested in following what is still a moving target here is the IETF draft of the protocol, and the W3C draft of the JS API. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-socket-protocol/ http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/ Both of these documents have been updated in the last day (!). Notable changes include a new, rather complex, initial handshake using Sec-WebSocket-Key fields in order to provide some security against just packing XHR or POST to a WebSocket server. Since Chrome is the only shipping browser with WebSocket support, I doubt that people were rushing out to put this stuff into production yet, but this is just a reminder that the spec is very much still in flux. I wouldn't be surprised if this handshake issue sees several more major revisions in the next few months. -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
