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Bug 11570 - Can't find the posibility for user authentication by connecting to a websocket! Missing?
Summary: Can't find the posibility for user authentication by connecting to a websocke...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebSocket API (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-12-17 16:52 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-01-11 19:21 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-12-17 16:52:39 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#top

Comment:
Can't find the posibility for user authentication by connecting to a
websocket! Missing?

Posted from: 188.22.4.7
Comment 1 Tab Atkins Jr. 2010-12-17 17:18:31 UTC 
WebSocket is a low-level communications protocol.  If you want to authenticate, you do it on a higher level.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-01-11 19:21:27 UTC 
Indeed.