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> If you have to talk to the application over HTTP, then it's not your application Huh? Just to give one counter-example, I talk to my Kodi mediacenter over HT
by matt_kantor 11y ago
> If you have to talk to the application over HTTP, then it's not your application
Huh? Just to give one counter-example, I talk to my Kodi mediacenter over HTTP (using https://github.com/jez500/chorus https://github.com/jez500/chorus) and when I'm at home the packets never leave my apartment or touch a device I don't own. The whole stack is open source to boot.
I guess you're talking about Facebook-style walled gardens, but HTTP give you more control over those (vs some proprietary protocol), not less.
- marssaxman 11y agoI'm talking about the web, of course, and it was a blatant generalization in order to make a point briefly. Congratulations on finding a counterexample, but we're talking about unrelated phenomena belonging to entirely different scales.