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• Subject: Re: Categories of Web Service messages: data-oriented v
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 02:39:49 -0500
• In-reply-to: <97WT4WOIICZWJHA6B7WUXR51X2W72YU.3c636956@MChamp>
• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
• References: <97WT4WOIICZWJHA6B7WUXR51X2W72YU.3c636956@MChamp>

> Or to put it differently, HTTP is powerful enough to be useful but
> limited enough to make it hard for hackers to attack you with.  It
> is an inefficient use of cheap and abundant computer resources, but
> who cares, if it saves expensive and scarce human resources?

That's pretty much it.

The assumption here is that it really is easier to get HTTP-based 
applications deployed (especially with micro-servers etc.) than it is 
to get an alternate protocol deployed... and that it will stay that 
way.

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  • Re: Categories of Web Service messages: data-oriented v
    • From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>

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