cockpit-project/cockpit — pull request #546 by stefwalter (2014-05-12 07:55:06+00:00)
Title: Use strings as channel identifiers instead of numbers

This is done for three reasons:

* Much much more flexible going forward, since this is an integral
part of our protocol, it can never be changed.
* We can allow routing multiple WebSockets to one agent, without
trying to coordinate the channel number space of those WebSockets.
This is not implemented in this patch.
* We can implement internal channels that don't get routed to a
WebSocket (necessary for implementing resource loading).

This is an alternative to the signed channel number patch that was
floating around.