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We should take the time to appreciate the people who choose to design text based protocols like SMTP and HTTP. They may be a little inefficient, but at least th
by TorKlingberg 14y ago
We should take the time to appreciate the people who choose to design text based protocols like SMTP and HTTP. They may be a little inefficient, but at least they don't suffer from arbitrary numerical limits like this.
- astrodust 14y agoUsing text was largely a way to make implementation easier, more human readable, and also conveniently avoid endian issues. The arbitrary numerical limits are usually in the implementation, as many a buffer overflow bug as demonstrated.
- anonymouz 14y agoBut the point is that the implementations can be fixed, one by one, without breaking the protocol.