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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. Yeah, but by pete-classic · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    don't most P2P systems use . . . HTTP as a transport?

    -Peter

  2. Whatever pans out... by swordboy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There needs to be a built in content rating standard that binds webmasters to law. Actually, this would be easier to implement with IPv6 since you could effectively segment subnets without too much of a problem (i.e. - put pr0n on designated IPs, educational on others, etc).

    There is too much dangerous stuff out there to just be turning kids loose. One might look to Microsoft and all their money for help implementing this but who are they to create standards?

    --

    Life is the leading cause of death in America.
  3. What the post *should* read by English+Nazi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...will slowly loose favor.

    Should be "slowly *lose* favor." One of my Favorite Fuckups (TM). "Lose" is the opposite of win; "loose" is the condition of your bowels after eating cheap Mexican food. Just so you know.