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Re: "Binary XML" proposals
- From: Vassilis Papadimos <vpapad@cse.ogi.edu>
- To: "Al B. Snell" <alaric@alaric-snell.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:13:31 -0700
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:57:28AM +0100, Al B. Snell wrote:
> > Are there any reasonable alternatives?
>
> Sure; UDP. Look at existing RPC protocols and learn from them.
I know about UDP; but for most applications I can think of, we
want reliable messages, with no restrictions in size, arriving in order.
If you implement these on top of UDP, I think you'll end up
reinventing TCP, only with more bugs :-)
Regards,
Vassilis.