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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. No central firewalls? by NetJunkie · · Score: 3, Informative

    Who in the world would want to administer seperate client firewalls? Sure, sounds great at home with 5 machines, now do it with 5000. No way that will ever happen.

    A good centrally administered firewall won't stop you from doing what you need to do. If a protocol is well thought out NAT will not cause a problem.

  2. I think you're missing the point by jon_c · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mr. Box was not saything that HTTP is not good as a Hyper Text Transfer protocol, he was stating that it's being manipulated to perform RPC, which is true. The theme of the artical was on how HTTP is bad for RPC, which you seem to also agree with.

    Simply because this guy now works at Microsoft does not mean he has an agenda for evil. As a matter of fact before working for Microsoft Mr. Box started a little company called DevelopMentor, He's also written a few books One of which is concedered "The" book on COM, Essential COM, ask any COM developer worth their salt if they own a copy, they do.

    I've known of Mr. Box for years now and trully recpect him as a technical writter and developer and I honestly don't think that he would shill for Microsoft.

    -Jon

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