Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

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On Fri Jul 22 01:11:33 2011, Masataka Ohta wrote:
Dave Cridland wrote:

> It's proven impossible, despite effort, to retrofit SRV onto HTTP;

Where is a proof?

Sorry, I've a habit of using the word "proof" in the English (and indeed Welsh) sense of "test" or "trial", rather than the mathematical sense of the statement backed up by logic.

I should simply say that there have been attempts (I recall more than one draft), but the situation is sufficiently entrenched that these have gained no traction, in no small part because of the requirement for something close to a flag day.

1) There are no SRV records.

2) Therefore browsers do not support them.

3) Therefore you'd need to allow for A-lookup as fallback for the forseeable future.

4) Therefore there's no incentive for browsers to support SRV.

Dave.
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