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Re: W3C Schema: Resistance is Futile, says Don Box


Re:  W3C Schema: Resistance is Futile
On Monday 10 June 2002 8:38 pm, Aaron Skonnard wrote:

> Ok, ok, I take it back. HTTP is probably trivial to implement (having
> not implemented it fully myself). I brought it into the discussion
> because it's something we all use yet I'm sure we could still find a
> group of developers that thinks it technically [expletive deleted] for whatever
> reason.

As is my destiny on XML-DEV, I will now point out that HTTP [expletive deleted]. It's based 
on TCP, and until recently (and even then not with the trivial 
implementations people throw together) set up an entire TCP connection to 
then send a single request packet and get a single response packet. Even when 
used in 'persistent mode' it then introduces a framing system that carefully 
emulates the underlying packet-based nature of the network which TCP does a 
lot of work to carefully hide away.

HTTP has a lot of confusing options that nobody seems to implement. Just look 
at the list of error codes for a quick run-down of them.

It seemed to be at its best around 1.0, before they put in all that 
"Connection:" stuff to try and make up for the misuse of TCP.

Check this baby out:

http://research.sun.com/techrep/1999/abstract-71.html

"Hybrid TCP-UDP Transport for Web Traffic"

ABS

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