Re: [hybi] Is there a traffic jam?

["Sylvain Hellegouarch" <[e-mail]>]

> Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote:
>> Perhaps the reason BEEP has never taken off is because it's so versatile
>> that it ultimately creates a bigger mismatch. I'm afraid WS might follow
>> the same trend.
>
> The BEEP web page suggests it's used more than you think.

Well to be fair, those applications don't look so much as being used on
the web itself but rather internally. It's quite easy to adapt to a
protocol when you don't have the constraints of a global network you don't
control.

>
> I suspect not so much versatility (HTTP is versatile), as it's too
> basic for a lot of applications.  You have to write your own stuff on
> top of it, so you might as well go all the way and use TCP or SSL,
> which isn't much harder and doesn't require you to learn another library.

Much agreed and that's the point I was tyring to make :)

>
> Or at the other end of the scale, useing HTTP or something ugly like
> SOAP containing a short string wrapped in 1k of pointlessness, because
> that's provided by well known libraries and the handy
> metadata/extensibility means you don't have to design your own way to
> add those things ad hoc.

You don't say :)

- Sylvain
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