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What about WebSockets, aren't they TCP?

• Wilya 14y ago
  Not directly. More like TCP-like messaging over HTTP. The server needs to understand the websockets protocol. Writing a basic server that strips the websockets part from messages and forwards them to a real TCP server isn't very hard, but it's still a server you need.
  • icebraining 14y ago
    It's not really "over HTTP", it's just an HTTP handshake: The WebSocket Protocol is an independent TCP-based protocol. Its only relationship to HTTP is that its handshake is interpreted by HTTP servers as an Upgrade request. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455#section-1.7 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455#section-1.7