The 7-bit Internet

Post by cmccabe » Sun, Jul 14, 2013, 6:00 AM UTC

zzzcpan wrote: post #136

cmccabe wrote: post #112

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Yeah. It's too bad there aren't free web servers out there that everyone can use that implement these protocols. Oh wait, there are. By making things more efficient, HTTP 2.0 is really going to make startups spend more money. Oh wait, no, the opposite thing.

These web servers aren't that useful for everyone, some of us have to write our own. EDIT: It's not the matter of implementation anyways, it's that something important only for Google is proposed as a standard for everyone, which is insane.

What startups do you know that are writing their own web servers?

More efficient web servers will, if anything, be even better for startups than they are for Google, since they lower the barrier to entry.

Post by cmccabe » Sun, Jul 14, 2013, 6:02 AM UTC

snogglethorpe wrote: post #120

jpatokal wrote: post #118

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SOAP is to REST as XML is to JSON. They're all technically 7-bit and notionally human-readable, but SOAP/XML are (well, can be) so verbose as to be near-impossible to parse by hand. Comparing the "Hello World"-style simple examples on Wikipedia is instructive: REST http://example.com/resources/item17 SOAP " rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"> " rel="nofollow">http://www.example.org/stock"> IBM

Amen. "Human readable" is not the same thing as human readable.

As I said earlier: The idea that making something LOOK like (but not actually be) "human text" makes anything better is an idea we should have buried along with COBOL and other mistakes from the past. But I guess not.

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