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Serious question: What is the use-case for email as a server communication protocol rather than say HTTP/s ? Is it to bypass firewalls in some way ?
by LunaSea 12y ago
Serious question: What is the use-case for email as a server communication protocol rather than say HTTP/s ?
Is it to bypass firewalls in some way ?
- jtmoulia 12y agoEmail allows someone to send me data, as opposed to HTTP/S which targets servers. Adding structured data to emails could allow natural language communication to have a machine readable view of the communication. And there's probably a lot more uses.
- LunaSea 12y agoYou'd still have the option to use WebSockets or Ajax-polling.