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Re: [hybi] BWTP Proposal - Bidirection Web Transfer Protocol



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Greg Wilkins wrote:
>
> + Because of it's similarity to HTTP, it is intended that existing
> HTTP clients, servers and intermediaries will be able to be
> minimally updated to support this protocol. This will not require
> entirely new protocol libraries to be developed.   Existing
> development and analysis tools will also be able to be easily
> updated, plus the protocol is mostly human readable.
Maybe I missing something about this in discussions, but I thought one
of the core ideas of WebSockets was to use CONNECT to
tunnel through existing proxies. Is there hope that BWTP would somehow
be properly handled by existing intermediaries, or would it require an
update to proxies? It certainly seems that if it is possible to build
the protocol such that it will work over existing proxies, that would
be greatly preferable. If this won't work across in current proxied
environments, uptake will be much slower (if at all), won't it?

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