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Hi, I'm a programmer. As a sysadmin, do you really have to deal with HTTP protocol by hand on such basis that a tool could not do the task for you if the proto
by zxcdw 13y ago
Hi, I'm a programmer.
As a sysadmin, do you really have to deal with HTTP protocol by hand on such basis that a tool could not do the task for you if the protocol wasn't human readable?
- dsr_ 13y agoNo. I need to deal with a dozen protocols in an emergency situation where I can't guarantee the appropriate tool is going to be available. (When it's not an emergency, yay tools!) For the same reason, I can use vi with no vim extensions. For the same reason, I like configuration files written in text formats, not binary blobs. Binary would be faster, sure. When it breaks, you need the precise tools to know what you're doing. I commend to you RFC 3117 - http://www.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3117.txt http://www.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3117.txt - as a discussion on how to figure out what a network protocol has to do, and how.
- weavejester 13y agoUnder what circumstances are you logging into machines with only telnet available? Presumably you also lack SSH, otherwise you could use a tunnel, so I assume you're physically logging into a bare-bones OS that lacks even basic functionality. Is that really something you do often? And if so, why?