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As you can see clearly from the 5 previous answers, the reason why is obvious.
by informatimago 11y ago
As you can see clearly from the 5 previous answers, the reason why is obvious.
- vjoshi 11y agoI was looking at this from more of an 'efficiency' perspective actually. Text-based protocols have a bit of an overhead as they require sending more data to transmit the same amount of information. So what benefits outweigh this? After a bit of digging, it does appear my question itself was incorrectly phrased. But it seems to be that the majority of internet traffic use text based protocols. There are many more binary protocols than text but more text traffic than binary. Thus most of the successful protocols on the internet are text based. Except for a small number of applications (bittorrent is one example) binary protocols tend to die.