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Bug 14414 - Is it really can be used like Winsocket? How can I use it?
Summary: Is it really can be used like Winsocket? How can I use it?
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
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: 2011-10-10 01:12 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-10-18 20:10 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-10-10 01:12:12 UTC 
Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Is it really can be used like Winsocket? How can I use it?

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Comment 1 Bronislav Klučka 2011-10-10 04:47:54 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> 
> Comment:
> Is it really can be used like Winsocket? How can I use it?
> 

Hi, no
this is not direct socket access (e.g. you cannot access port 993 on some computer and start to communicate with IMAP protocol). The name is confusing. WebSockets is protocol on its own.
The link you posted is client side communication interface. The underlying communication protocol is here
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-17
(so far FF7 supports 7th version, Chrome supports 10th version, but will switch to 16th version)

If you want to know more I suggest 
http://www.youtube.com/user/BronislavKlucka#p/c/3A7E9CAAA6B4CB73/0/2MSPwt3WGq8
video about mine server and client implementation
and
http://code.google.com/p/bauglir-websocket/
the implementation itself with some demos
Comment 2 Arthur Barstow 2011-10-18 17:57:51 UTC 
The original request is a question and not a bug report. As such, I think this bug should be resolved as INVALID. Any objections to that?
Comment 3 Bronislav Klučka 2011-10-18 18:00:53 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> The original request is a question and not a bug report. As such, I think this
> bug should be resolved as INVALID. Any objections to that?

Not at all, this is no bug...