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Re:ASK HN: Why are so many IP's text based? by vjoshi on Sunday September 27, 2015 @08:49PM (#10288462)
text-based vs binary. So most of the characters used in the IP are between 0x20 (space) and 0x7E (~), opposed to transmitting binary over the connection.
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Re:ASK HN: Why are so many IP's text based? by Perdition on Monday September 28, 2015 @12:17AM (#10288889)
Only HTTP is text based. TCP, IP, and link-layer protocols are binary.

HTTP is text based because it is a protocol for transferring (hyper)text and so was intended to be human readable like hypertext is.

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Re:ASK HN: Why are so many IP's text based? by pki on Sunday September 27, 2015 @09:13PM (#10288515)
what do you mean IP?
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