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Why? What's so limiting about calling remote services over HTTP?

• londons_explore 8y ago
  Http is pretty bad for long running requests (run this code which takes 6 hours), or bidirectional streaming (eg. Video conferencing) Other RPC mechanisms have no trouble with that.
  • mythz 8y ago
    Hooks are a popular approach for implementing notification callbacks for long running requests over HTTP. Bidirectional streaming is irrelevant here, the question is what's so limiting about using HTTP for this use-case? (i.e. by far the most popular protocol used for invoking remote service requests).
    • bitcurious 8y ago
      >Hooks are a popular approach for implementing notification callbacks for long running requests over HTTP. Can you post an example/blog post of this approach?
      • mythz 8y ago
        A good example is GitHub's Web Hooks which is common for notifying GitHub PR's of completed CI results: - https://developer.github.com/webhooks/ https://developer.github.com/webhooks/ There's also a Community WebHook plugin for ServiceStack: - https://github.com/jezzsantos/ServiceStack.Webhooks https://github.com/jezzsantos/ServiceStack.Webhooks