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Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> Tue, 14 April 2009 00:51 UTC

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On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
>...
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> Because such servers are more likely to be standalone and written by
> inexperienced programmers.

Programmers who are comfortable writing reasonably scalable TCP
servers for binary protocols are unlikely to be "inexperienced." I am
quite surprised that you think that inexperienced programmers would
want to  write a protocol handler for a binary connection-oriented
protocol. This is likely to require multi-threading in most languages.
I think it far more likely that they would expect such a thing to be
implemented by the Apache foundation or the Python core team or
Microsoft. If the HTTP protocol is hard for these implementers, wait
until they learn about multi-threading!

 Paul Prescod

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