Where did people get the notion that WebSockets have anything to do with REST or http?? websockets are a simple tcp connection, you know... like the one that CA

Where did people get the notion that WebSockets have anything to do with REST or http?? websockets are a simple tcp connection, you know... like the one that CARRIES http! So when people say stuff like this: > First and foremost, how do you represent a URI? Second, how do you represent the HTTP methods (GET, PUT, POST, …)? A How do we represent HTTP? Well, how about using HTTP ?!?! (is everybody taking crazy pills, or am I missing some HUGE part of this discussion?)