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| author | MrJuneJune <me@mrjunejune.com> |
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| date | Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:33:18 -0800 |
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--- a/mrjunejune/src/blog/websocket-demystified/index.md Mon Jan 19 16:29:02 2026 -0800 +++ b/mrjunejune/src/blog/websocket-demystified/index.md Mon Jan 19 17:33:18 2026 -0800 @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +--- +title: WebSocket Demystified +description: A deep dive into WebSocket internals, debunking the 65535 port myth and building a WebSocket implementation from scratch. +--- + # WebSocket Demystified WebSockets have been around for more than 10 years now. The [RFC 6455](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6455) was dropped way back in 2011. This was inevitable. As apps got more complex, people wanted real bidirectional communication without resorting to hacky solutions like raw TCP connections with custom keys or the constant overhead of short/long polling.