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Re: [hybi] WS framing alternative

Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@ltgt.net> Tue, 27 October 2009 11:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] WS framing alternative
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
>
> That seems like orders of magnitude more complexity than necessary,
> especially given that the only tangible benefit is a modicum of
> improvement in ease of debugging.
>
> In fact, I would argue that the increased complexity actually increases
> the need for debugging more than the text-based approach actually gives
> you in terms of debugging. Debugging binary protocols isn't especially
> difficult. You just pipe tcpdump through hexdump and less, and the issue
> is done. The protocol is so simple that you can hack together a read/write
> console in less than an hour.

I totally agree; and for debugging, I believe a
protocol-decoder/dissector/display-filter could also be quite easily
added to Wireshark or similar network packet analyzers.

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Thomas Broyer
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