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[jsr356-experts] Re: Pings and Pongs

From: Joe Walnes <joe_at_walnes.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:17:52 -0500

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Greg Wilkins <gregw_at_intalio.com> wrote:

> On 13 July 2012 11:10, Joe Walnes <joe_at_walnes.com> wrote:
> >
> > * Whatever the result of the streaming API discussion, we should offer
> > equivalent methods for the ping/pong application date (e.g. chunking,
> > streaming, whatever).
>
> Pings and Pongs are control frames, so their payload size is limited
> to 126 bytes. I think a streaming API for this would be overkill
> and prone to overflows.
>

Ahh ok - that makes sense. I retract that suggestion.