[jboss-as7-dev] Consolidating ports under 80/443

[Bill Burke]

On 5/18/12 12:35 PM, Remy Maucherat wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 11:36 -0400, Bill Burke wrote:
>> I'm not talking about websockets.  There's a bunch of subsystems that
>> have their own proprietary protocols i.e. HornetQ has their superfast
>> protocol as well as STOMP, neither of which use HTTP or WebSockets.
>> THey could use HTTP Upgrade to connect, then just take over the socket
>> to do with whatever they wanted.
>
> WebSockets does an upgrade, so ...
>

Sure, but would require all these apps to run under a servlet container. 
  Most of them (all) don't want that dependency.  Most of them (all) 
don't want to have to use a native library (APR) to do non-blocking io.

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