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> Yet we know a transparent, grokable, mungeable, backwards-and-forwards-compatible protocol that plays well with middle boxes is doable: HTTP Not all traffic
by overgard 5y ago
> Yet we know a transparent, grokable, mungeable, backwards-and-forwards-compatible protocol that plays well with middle boxes is doable: HTTP
Not all traffic is web traffic, maybe not even most of it. There are so many things that would have absolutely wretched performance if you tried to implement them with HTTP instead of TCP. HTTP is way too generic to be truly performant.