Re: Notes on XRC

[Shlomo Pongratz <shlomop-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

On 3/26/2013 5:55 PM, Hefty, Sean wrote:
>> This is just a workaround I been considering in case using "hints" and
>> asynchronous connection request can't work together. If I want to have
>> servers and clients that need to be backward compatible with RC servers
>> and clients. And assuming the old ones didn't used the private data in
>> the connection request and in the accept. Than the presence of the
>> private data will indicated that these are XRC enabled clients and servers.
> I don't see how an app can 'just switch' from RC to XRC without having coded for the possibility of XRC.  XRC introduces too many new concepts.
The communication is just one part of the application. It is acceptable 
to prepare for both XRC and RC and decide ad-hoc which transport to use, 
there is no intention to switch back and forth between the different 
transport. The nature of the connection is to be established with the 
connect-accept handshake, and it is not going to be changed as long as 
the connection linger. So what I need is to accept connection requests 
asynchronously and decide which transport module to uses.

S.P.

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