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Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> Tue, 27 October 2009 10:46 UTC

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Ian Hickson wrote:
>> I think the IETF should be considering a bidirectional solution for all 
>> web clients - not just for HTML5 JS clients
> 
> What's wrong with TCP, BEEP, or Jabber?

Once upon a time there was the internet and IP was God (even though
Al Gore invented the internet and he really should have been God).

But then somebody invented the Web (was it Bill Gates?) and now
port 80 is God.

The Web runs on top of the Internet, but restricts all the wonderful
features of IP to a one way port 80.

TCP, BEEP, or Jabber are really great Internet protocols, but
they don't generally work on the web.   Jabber (aka XMPP) has
to fall back to BOSH on HTTP in order to span the web.

cheers

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