[aerogear-dev] [simplepush] Proposed change to Ping response

[Daniel Bevenius]

This is no problem as we currently always replay with "{}". I'll remove
support for anything but the simple "{}" too.

Sounds great having dev-simplepush at mozilla for things like this.
Thanks for the heads up!


On 20 September 2013 22:00, JR Conlin <jrconlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yep, every ping of "{}" would return a ping of "{}". The discussion over
> here was a bit ... heated. Partly because I wanted to make sure that
> this is the ONLY last minute change, and I think I can say it is. I
> won't alter the published spec until I get the OK from y'all, but I'll
> probably go ahead and alter the server to return the abbreviated ping.
> (Now I get to tell QA and Ops they'll need to fix up their tests, yay!)
>
> Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of having app level pings. These really do
> need to live at the net level since they're already spec'd out in
> Websocket, and FAR lighter weight, but there are significant issues
> there and we play what we're dealt.
>
> I've also filed a bug to get dev-simplepush at mozilla set up. I'm fine
> with posting here as well, but as the consumers and providers grow, I'd
> like to have a central place we can announce crap like this.
>
> I'll send a follow up once the mail list is live for anyone interested
> in joining.
>
> On 2013/9/20 12:38 PM, Kris Borchers wrote:
> > I think we would be fine with that. Dan would be the best one to answer
> but he is on CET and probably sleeping. I know our client only sends '{}'
> in its pings and the server handles that so if I'm understanding correctly,
> what you want is for the server to only respond to that payload in a ping
> which again, I think should be fine.
> >
> >> On Sep 20, 2013, at 13:55, JR Conlin <jrconlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> We got a rather late request from a partner that changes how Ping
> >> responses act.
> >>
> >> While the spec says that a ping response is arbitrary and it's
> >> recommended that the server reply with "{}", a partner is requesting
> >> that this be the only response from a server for a Ping.
> >>
> >> The partner has client deployed code, which is the only reason we're
> >> entertaining the change.
> >>
> >> Would this change be a significant impact to your server, testing or
> >> operations?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
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