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This very much depends on the protocol. Microsoft loves XML and and if the update package has an XML manifest with update information attached to it, it's very
by foepys 5y ago
This very much depends on the protocol. Microsoft loves XML and and if the update package has an XML manifest with update information attached to it, it's very well a string that gets serialized to a number. The same applies to JSON and other text-based formats.
- petee 5y agoAnd that is fine though because at some lower level everything becomes a number to a computer. I think everyone is getting hung up on this string/number difference; data from humans is going to come as a string, thats no reason to store or process it as such. Plenty of data is stored in varied types for processing that are efficient for a computer, for example DNS has been using date-based serial numbers successfully for decades, and stored internally as uint32.