I don't understand why they didn't just provide an api to normal IP layer sockets, it would have given a lot more flexibility. I'm thinking the sort of lower le

I don't understand why they didn't just provide an api to normal IP layer sockets, it would have given a lot more flexibility. I'm thinking the sort of lower level networking access you get in node.js If people really wanted to send data over this weird semi-HTTP websocket protocol then someone could have implemented it as a js library on top of proper socket calls. I'm guessing the main issue was cross-domain security, but I would have liked to see this solved using some sort of policy file that can be requested from the domain before connecting, like Flash does.