Sigh.... I'd forgotten about this (used to do this in a previous job) Parsing airline flight bookings straight from raw sockets was not fun. Thing is, it does

Sigh.... I'd forgotten about this (used to do this in a previous job) Parsing airline flight bookings straight from raw sockets was not fun. Thing is, it does the job, and if you watch users requesting and making bookings with the system (or other similar travel service bookings using things like VT320 terminals), I'd bet a web interface couldn't actually be faster. But only if you know how to use it. Rather ironically, about 4 years ago, they added a "web service" to this which just wrapped the console output directly in a single set of XML tags - I kid you not - no attempt to nicely separate atoms into separate tags.