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>it’s a shame we’d have to use some arcane protocol to query it ...does the author mean DNS? Literally spitting text at a server over UDP? As opposed to the co
by vermilingua 6y ago
>it’s a shame we’d have to use some arcane protocol to query it
...does the author mean DNS? Literally spitting text at a server over UDP? As opposed to the comparatively simple json/js/tls/dns hybrid monstrosity which I’m sure would be the end result of his curl prototype.
- scubbo 6y agoDNS _is_ arcane ("understood by few; mysterious") for the majority of developers, who've never had to directly interact with it. Whereas I'd bet good money that 99% of developers who've worked on web services for more than a year know how to use curl to hit a url. Don't mistake "simple" for "widely-known".
- alangibson 6y agoThis is exactly what I meant. Arcane != Hard.