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Subject: [9front] Websocket Message Delimiters
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I have recently been thinking about writing a websocket implementation
for plan9/9front. I kind of wanted it to work similar to tcpsrv and
tcpclient.

Whatever, I want to be able to just put it on stdin/stdout of e.g.
exportfs, but also preserve message delimiters in some way.

The problem is that websocket allows message lenghts of up to 64^2-1,
which will definitely not work with single writes.

Does anyone know of any other option than implementing it as a tcp-like
stream and dropping message delimiters?

As for why I want to make it, I want to be able to make services that
are interfaceable from browser javascript, maybe even a drawterm-web.