Remarks on the Work of Sugar

[Jim Gettys]

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 12:28 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> 
> I wouldn't encourage http :-)
> 

I actively discourage http.... It conceptually mixes layering in a
horrific fashion...  

HTTP does have some major features: in particular, that the default
behavior allowing extensions is to ignore what you don't understand,
which in a network environment, is the correct default (since you can't
upgrade both ends of the connection at once).  But it has the opposite
problem (which has consequences about 1/10'th as often); no good way to
require the other end understand messages that are not upward
compatible...
                         - Jim


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Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org>
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