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



On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:07:37 +0200, Greg Wilkins <gregw at webtide.com> wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Greg Wilkins wrote:
>>>> is there any reason from a browser prospective to avoid the inclusion
>>>> of META-DATA in this kind of protocol?
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if there are other objections - Ian?
>>
>> It would be best to ask browser vendors directly, but off-hand I can't
>> think of any reasons other than the necessary added complexity (parsing
>> the metadata, handling exposing it to scripts, defining all the error
>> handling to ensure bogus servers are handled predictably, etc).
>
> Note that I think the discussion of what should be exposed/changed in
> the API is a different one to the transport protocol.

The transport protocol still needs to be implemented so the added complexity of BWTP over WS does not seem that great in that respect.


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