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FooBarWidget
on July 16, 2013
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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
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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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