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slothsarecool | 3 years ago

Adding raw TCP is a big deal, it skips all the existing security stack that focuses on HTTP/S. There is Spectrum and Transit to provide network level protection but... only a few can afford that.

Does this mean that TCP workers would be exposed to network level attacks or would it use transit/spectrum? If it turns out to be protected; I'd say there would be little to no reason to use Spectrum unless the pricing turns out to be atrocious for long lived connections (which is kind of the point of having TCP workers in the first place).

I hope I did not come out as rude; I'm genuinely curious about what's the plan behind all of this.

Edit: I pointed out there would be no use for spectrum since one could "easily" build a reverse proxy with a tcp worker.

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kentonv|3 years ago

The exact details aren't all nailed down but I'd expect for incoming connections Workers would integrate directly with Spectrum. I don't know what that might mean for pricing, but I imagine we'd find a solution where cost doesn't block people from building cool things.