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   <H1>[whatwg] WebSocket bufferedAmount includes overhead or not</H1>
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    <B>Anne van Kesteren</B> 
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    <I>Thu Mar 25 08:55:32 PDT 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:35:19 +0100, Olli Pettay &lt;<A HREF="http://lists.whatwg.org/listinfo.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org">Olli.Pettay at helsinki.fi</A>&gt;  
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&gt;<i> On 3/25/10 4:25 PM, Niklas Beischer wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Easy. The bufferedAmount is: &quot;The amount of bytes waiting to be
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> transferred, including protocol overhead&quot;.
</I>&gt;<i> That doesn't define exactly what the bufferedAmount means and what
</I>&gt;<i> kinds of values are expected.
</I>&gt;<i> What I'd expect the API to tell me is, for example, that if I call
</I>&gt;<i> ws.send(foo), and nothing is yet sent over the network, what is the
</I>&gt;<i> exact value of bufferedAmount.
</I>&gt;<i> Again, I'd really wish to keep the API to work reasonable similar
</I>&gt;<i> way as XHR+progress events where protocol overhead isn't reported.
</I>
Why? Progress events are completely different from this. This is about not  
saturating the network with too much data; it makes sense if the actual  
amount of data that is going to hit the network is known. (Yes, I changed  
my mind.)


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