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  25.     <I>Wed Apr 28 06:49:20 PDT 2010</I>
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  41. <PRE>On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:15:13 +0200, Simon Pieters &lt;<A HREF="http://lists.whatwg.org/listinfo.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org">simonp at opera.com</A>&gt; wrote:
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  43. &gt;<i> The WebSocket spec allows leading 0x80 bytes in the length of a binary  
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  44. </I>&gt;<i> frame. Such bytes do not change the value of the length. In order to not  
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  45. </I>&gt;<i> have to deal with ridiculous cases such as when there are 50k such  
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  46. </I>&gt;<i> bytes, we would want to fail the connection if the first byte in length  
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  49. This is now sunk cost for us. Please disregard.
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  51. &gt;<i> Allowing it also complicates the check of the closing handshake (if we  
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  52. </I>&gt;<i> want 0xFF 0x80 0x00 to not count as a closing handshake).
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