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QWebSocket only supports version 13 of the WebSocket protocol, as outlined in
\l {http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455}{RFC 6455}.
+ \note Some proxies do not understand certain HTTP headers used during a web socket handshake.
+ In that case, non-secure web socket connections fail. The best way to mitigate against
+ this problem is to use web sockets over a secure connection.
+
\warning To generate masks, this implementation of WebSockets uses the cryptographically
insecure qrand() function.
For more information about the importance of good masking,