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I hate the fact that corporate IT collectively decided to block every port except 80 and 443, making it necessary to base new protocols on HTTP instead of TCP/I

I hate the fact that corporate IT collectively decided to block every port except 80 and 443, making it necessary to base new protocols on HTTP instead of TCP/IP.

jolux 2y ago
In my experience HTTP is a better foundation for novel protocols in most cases.
- LambdaComplex 2y ago
  Doesn't HTTP require binary data to be converted to base64 encoding, thereby increasing its size on the wire? That seems suboptimal for a lot of use cases
  - kragen 2y ago
    no, it does not, neither in requests nor in replies. possibly you are thinking of smtp
    - LambdaComplex 2y ago
      > possibly you are thinking of smtp You're right, I definitely was
  - devmor 2y ago
    It does not - you are perhaps thinking of GET queries: URL data often must be base64 encoded as URLs are parsed as characters. HTTP bodies can be made up of any data in any encoding you wish.