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There is so much NIH going on in this protocol, it's as if the authors we're completely unaware of modern HTTP API design. They're not just doing IMAP over htt
by voidcommonstock 7y ago
There is so much NIH going on in this protocol, it's as if the authors we're completely unaware of modern HTTP API design.
They're not just doing IMAP over http, they invented their own error bodies, schema's , negotiation and RPC.
- greggyb 7y agoI think their goal is to have transport layer be a pluggable subsystem, divorced from their request-response protocol. They even essentially say that HTTP is not necessary to their protocol, so I think it's pretty apparent that HTTP is a utilitarian choice, but they're not trying to build email-over-http.
- specialist 7y ago”pluggable subsystem” SOAP had same rationalization.