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Bug 26030 - "User agents must not [ping/pong] to aid the server"?! Why not?
Summary: "User agents must not [ping/pong] to aid the server"?! Why not?
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2014-06-10 16:30 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-08-27 23:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2014-06-10 16:30:59 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/network.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#ping-and-pong-frames
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#ping-and-pong-frames
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/network.html

Comment:
"User agents must not [ping/pong] to aid the server"?! Why not?

Posted from: 2a02:390:a001:192:21c:c0ff:fe47:48f8
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/25.0.1364.160 Chrome/25.0.1364.160 Safari/537.22
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-06-10 16:48:06 UTC 
Because it is assumed that servers will solicit pongs whenever appropriate for the server's needs.