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Should the following result in so many connections being made to the Socket.IO server?
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I'm trying to use Socket.IO with namespaces in order to partition the data. See the following code:

<script src="https://cdn.socket.io/socket.io-1.0.6.js"></script>
<script>
var webglStats = io( '/webgl' );
var videoStats = io( '/video' );
var touchStats = io( '/touch' );
</script>

If I look at the network tab I see the following:

The following document states Socket.IO supports multiplexing: https://github.com/automattic/socket.io-protocol

How does this map from the 3 namespaces to the connections shown in the image?

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