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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. Everything not MS is obsolete by gweihir · · Score: 2, Redundant

    I seem to remember that some time in the past MS claimed that the Internet was obsolete and the MicroSoft Network was the future. I think Unix is also obsolete according to MS.

    And of course I am obsolete since I refuse to view MS products as anything else than toys. Admittedly by now toys that actually have some level of stability and can be used for some (limited) tasks without too much hassle. But as long as they insist on sitting on their island (admittedly a large one, but instable and plagued by document-rot), I will not consider their products "professional" in any sense.

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    Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted and ignored otherwise.
  2. Re:fair enough by mikeee · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I've read C&B.

    How is your firewall going to protect from a new Outlook virus, or the IE bug-of-the-month?

    And if I'm running RFC3093 IP over HTTP, with SSL, your proxy is almost certain to be clueless. Even assuming I'm not using steganography... and SOAP might count. ;)

    Sure, proxies are more secure; but they can't be perfectly secure... and now you need a new proxy for each new application, which is the mess I was complaining about.