For my use case I'm not worried about the client's security (in fact, he's the one I'm interested in protecting the server from). We probably are assuming very

For my use case I'm not worried about the client's security (in fact, he's the one I'm interested in protecting the server from). We probably are assuming very different tolerance thresholds on security. But even so, I don't think you can argue for any security advantages of typical implementations for a 50-page protocol when comparing them to a one-way simple GIF sender.