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Re: [hybi] Is there a traffic jam?

Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> Tue, 14 April 2009 00:11 UTC

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On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
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> I'd rather have a protocol that's so simple that nobody will feel the need
> to write their own HTTP parser, say.

Do you have any evidence that people write their own HTTP parsers when
they use other protocols that run on top of or extend HTTP? Atompub,
WebDAV, SOAP, XML-RPC?

Why would web sockets programmers be more likely to write their own
HTTP parsers than other programmers?

 Paul Prescod

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