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HTTP's Days Numbered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-number-or-small-number-is-the-question dept.

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!"

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  1. Reporters line of logic. by interstellar_donkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  2. duh by cweiblen · · Score: 5, Funny
    I need a way to send a request to a server and not the get result for five days

    Try sending an email to MS customer support

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  3. HTTP is being replaced with... by Refrag · · Score: 5, Funny

    MSTP .Net

    Microsoft will be anouncing Microsoft Transfer Protocol .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.

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