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Back in the day when protocols ran over HTTP it was also a lot easier for amateurs to pick up wireshark. But if we know that the company is going to respond by

by jopsen 9y ago

Back in the day when protocols ran over HTTP it was also a lot easier for amateurs to pick up wireshark. But if we know that the company is going to respond by changing the protocol. Then who wants to spend time reverse engineering it?

Sniffnoy 9y ago
That hardly seems like much of an explanation. Look at the old protocols Pidgin and other clients of the time (e.g. Trillian) spoke -- AOL, MSN, Yahoo... those didn't run over HTTP. More importantly, the companies did respond by changing the protocols; the client-writers kept up all the same. So that's not something that's different between then and now.