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by icebraining 4880 days ago
It's not really "over HTTP", it's just an HTTP handshake:

  The WebSocket Protocol is an independent TCP-based protocol.  Its
  only relationship to HTTP is that its handshake is interpreted by
  HTTP servers as an Upgrade request.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455#section-1.7