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Bug 13322 - Add UDP! Quake uses UDP, I can't continue development of WebQuake because it uses UDP.
Summary: Add UDP! Quake uses UDP, I can't continue development of WebQuake because it ...
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: 2011-07-21 19:47 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-08 21:44 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-07-21 19:47:12 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Add UDP! Quake uses UDP, I can't continue development of WebQuake because it
uses UDP.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-08-05 23:34:33 UTC 
Done. See PeerConnection in http://whatwg.org/html
Comment 2 SiPlus 2011-08-07 08:51:08 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Done. See PeerConnection in http://whatwg.org/html

Can I connect to clients that use Quake engines written on C using PeerConnection?
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-08-07 16:46:02 UTC 
Sure, if they implement the same protocol.
Comment 4 SiPlus 2011-08-07 17:06:07 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Sure, if they implement the same protocol.

They won't, the game is 15 year old.
Comment 5 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-08-08 21:44:38 UTC 
Then no, intentionally. We don't want to allow hostile authors to write Web pages that can connect to servers that aren't explicitly expecting it. For example, SMTP servers (hello spam) or IRC servers or whatnot.