29 Dec
2009
29 Dec
'09
11:24 a.m.
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:00:57 CST, Joe Greco said:
Do we really want to spread that sort of model to the rest of the Internet? All it really encourages is for more and more things to be ported to HTTP, including, amusingly, management of devices...
I can remember at one time, some of the same players who argued against IPv6 adoption because the long addresses would increase network overhead were the same ones championing the insane firewalling that started the "everything over HTTP" insanity. Guess which adds more bits to the total packet? :)