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HTTP's Days Numbered
dlek writes: "ZDNet is running an article in which a Microsoft .Net engineer declares HTTP's days are numbered. (For those of you just tuning in, HTTP is the primary protocol for the world-wide web.) Among the tidbits in this manifesto is the inference that HTTP is problematic primarily because it's asymmetric--it's not peer-to-peer, therefore it's obsolete. Hey everybody, P2P was around long before Napster, and was rejected when client-server architecture was more appropriate!"
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
Does anybody else find it hilarious that this guy from Microsoft says "It's all hackery, it's all ad-hoc and none of it is interoperable." I mean, this is the same Microsoft that goes out of its way to prevent MSN.com from being viewed with other browsers than IE, completely ignores HTML standards and tries to make its own proprietary HTML tags, tries to prevent Java from being interoperable, and uses closed APIs for Windows programming and proprietary formats for DOC files.
So, will the new protocol help serve web pages from Mars, where the time delay a quite long?
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
Richard von Weizs
Oh yeah, and all operating systems besides Windows XP are obsolete.
ROFL.
By the way, the funniest quote in the article was:
Microsoft has some ideas (on how to break the independence on HTTP)
Now that was a Freudian slip... ;-)
299,792,458 m/s...not just a good idea, its the law!
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
Score: -1 100% Flamebait
Did anyone else notice that Mr. Box used the word hack properly? ("It's all hackery")
Malcolm solves his problems with a chainsaw,
And he never has the same problem twice.
1. As everyone knows, the WWW is the Internet.
2. Since the web runs using HTTP, http runs the Internet.
3. HTTP can't do everything the Internet can offer.
4. While there are other protocols out there (like ftp, p2p, telnet), only hackers and pirates use them, so they must be insecure.
5. Therefore, we must change http or the Internet is doomed.
The Internet is generally stupid
Try sending an email to MS customer support
-- It's better to be pissed off than pissed on.
MSTP .Net
.Net which will be used by the WWN (World Wide .Net) for anything from ms-mail (sending electronic messages to friends and family) to paying your ms-mortgage.
Microsoft will be anouncing Microsoft Transfer Protocol
I have a website. It's about Macs.
Of course HTTP is dead! All I type in now to get to a site is WWW...
Yes. It is a marketing strategy.
.Net
It's the queers. They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay Martians, I swear to God
It was funnier before I realized the second part was your sig, and not refering to
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Choose mnemonic identifiers. If you can't remember what mnemonic means, you've got a problem. - Larry Wall
"But, he said, we can't stay on HTTP forever, despite all the investment and engineering that have gone into it. Among the problems with HTTP, said Box, is the fact that it is a [Not Owned By Microsoft] Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol; something that one [Non-MS] program (such as a [Netscape] browser) uses to request a [Potentially Unlicensed] service from another program located in another [NOT WINDOWS] computer (the server) in a network without having to understand [Proprietary] network details.
"We have to do something to make it (HTTP) less important," said Box. "If we rely on HTTP we will [Never Own The Internet Right Down To The Roots]. We at least have to raise the level of abstraction, so that we have an industry-wide [Monopoly] way to do long-running requests--I need a way to [Make Money Writing Books On How To Use Our Protocol].
"I need a way to send a request to a server and not the get result for five days."
No doubt so the server can be rebooted three or four times...
i know! how about letting microsoft embrace and extend HTTP and make a new protocol that they control.
they can start implementing it in IE and Windows first, then over time completely remove support for things like HTTP.
i think i just threw up in my mouth.
Unfortunately, no one can be told what .NET is, you have to see it for yourself.