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		bobmcnamara 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You might not need WebSockets I fixed a few bugs in a WebSocket client and was blown away by the things they do to trick old proxies into not screwing it all up.

fenesiistvan 8 months ago [–]

I would be interested in those tricks

bobmcnamara 8 months ago | [–]

A big one is 'masking' all client requests that a proxy can't effectively cache the response since the request always changes.

The RFC explains it: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6455#section-5.3

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