Comments on NonBlocking.io - Malte Ubl's Asynchronous Identity Disorder: Access to WebSockets on a Sub-Domain though a Prox...

Knowing that accessing WebSockets even works throu...

2010-10-18T10:05:30.034-07:00

Knowing that accessing WebSockets even works through an iframe is good to know, thanks.

Also agree with you that WebSocket servers are scaled very differently from normal web servers. Experienced that first hand in a couple of projects.

Regarding XHR fallbacks, for Beaconpush, we have a Flash fallback as the last resort if everything fails. This allows cross-domain to go through every time (given the user has Flash) since Flash allows cross-domain requests.

You are right about the cross origin web socket ca...

2010-10-13T11:06:02.130-07:00

You are right about the cross origin web socket calls, but see also the update to my post.

@anonymouse no, it's using web sockets. No fal...

2010-10-13T10:16:26.223-07:00

@anonymouse no, it's using web sockets. No fallback method.

That is probably because socket.io will fall back ...

2010-10-13T00:22:09.961-07:00

That is probably because socket.io will fall back to non-websocket JSONP long-polling for cross domain requests.

I haven't got any issues with cross domain web...

2010-10-13T00:16:31.946-07:00

I haven't got any issues with cross domain web sockets so far.. I'm able to connect to socket.io from every domain using websockets.

Websockets are crossdomain so, i don't really see the issue here.

Thanks.

2010-10-12T12:46:19.156-07:00

Thanks.