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FooBarWidget on July 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Enough with the JavaScript already

A lot of corporate environments prevent you from connecting to anything but port 80 and 443. Websockets is the only way for you to multiplex your tcp-like connections over port 80.

jiggy2011 on July 16, 2013 [–]

Right, but I assume they block those other ports for a reason. What is different about websocket that makes that reason no longer apply?

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