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> bidirectional stateful sockets, aka a tcp connection Which is not "easy" to do over the internet, so the native app folks ended-up using HTTP anyway. (Plus t
by flomo 2y ago
> bidirectional stateful sockets, aka a tcp connection
Which is not "easy" to do over the internet, so the native app folks ended-up using HTTP anyway. (Plus they invented things like SOAP.)
- 0xbadcafebee 2y agoTCP is easy to do over the internet. Did you mean the middleboxes? Ah, the middleboxes, the favorite scapegoat of the world wide web's cabal of committees. You'd think they were absolutely powerless. Like firewalls and application proxies are a fundamental principle of nature; unable to be wrestled, only suffered under. Yet the web controls a market share 500 times larger.