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Alright, but that is just theory. The reason you'd want a text protocol is so that humans could read it. Once you secure the protocol, you can't read it witho
by mbelshe 15y ago
Alright, but that is just theory. The reason you'd want a text protocol is so that humans could read it. Once you secure the protocol, you can't read it without a machine to help you.
- drdaeman 15y agoWell, by the same reasoning I "can't" easily talk HTTP because I can't talk TCP, IP and 802.3 - they're all binary. This is exactly why I wrote "high-level protocols". With just a telnet client I can talk HTTP, FTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, IRC and so on. And the machine just needs to handle lowel-level details.