[fpc-pascal] CustHttpApp and HP httperf tool

[Michael Schnell]

On 06/10/2014 10:22 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
> The purpose of a websocket is entirely different, these are not 
> interchangeable technologies.
> A websocket is not even the HTTP protocol.
I do know this. I was told that websocket is a kind of successor 
technology for the replacement of not very "safe" methods like "comet" 
that rely on kept-open http sockets.
>
>> If course the browser, the server, and any proxy in between needs to 
>> support this but I was told that his is supposed to usually to be in 
>> place.
>
> This is also not correct. I have had many problems deploying a 
> websockets based program.
>
I see. So what I have been told by a websocket advocate (who indeed 
erroneously claimed that websocket is a HTTP protocol and proxies would 
not need to acknowledge such a new protocol, calling me a fool for 
doubting this), seems to be wrong :-( .

-Michael