[web-devel] A WebSocket library

[Gregory Collins]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Greg Weber <greg at gregweber.info> wrote:
> Hi yi,
> WAI is and will always be designed for HTTP. Websockets is a different
> protocol (even though it is normally initiated over HTTP). If there is a way
> that makes sense to put it websockets into WAI, it can definitely be
> considered. But I believe the current plan is to put Websocket support into
> Warp. Haskell code re-use will be achieved through this Websockets library.
> Does that seem reasonable to you?

Snap was planning on handling this by giving you an "ejector seat"
mechanism in which control completely leaves the HTTP stack and you
get a (readEnd, writeEnd) enumerator/iteratee pair to do whatever you
want with.

G
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Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>