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Of course, Perl has been doing this for over a decade. Nobody thought it was remarkable enough to write an article about it though.
by AsymetricCom 13y ago
Of course, Perl has been doing this for over a decade. Nobody thought it was remarkable enough to write an article about it though.
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- huhtenberg 13y agoNot just Perl. This is basically inetd re-invented. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inetd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inetd
- joewalnes 13y agohuhtenberg: I believe AsymetricCom was referring to being able to compile an executable using perlcc. He wasn't referring to the networking aspects of it (WebSockets have not been around 10 years). huhtenberg: You're right. It's very similar to inetd - that's why the first sentence in the websocketd description is "Like inetd, but for WebSockets". The thing it adds on top of inetd is it takes care of the protocol so the underlying app doesn't need to. Namely HTTP WebSocket handshaking and data framing.