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Re:Mars – A cross-platform network component developed by We... by yinseny on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @10:16PM (#13275422)
an AFNetworking/OkHttp alternative written in C++ and use socket instead of HTTP
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Re:Mars – A cross-platform network component developed by We... by est on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @10:48PM (#13275515)
So id could be used to avoid proxy capturing your requests?
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Re:Mars – A cross-platform network component developed by We... by yinseny on Thursday December 29, 2016 @12:57AM (#13275886)
i think it's more about performance. Wechat ha HUGE amount of users in China, an low level socket connection would get better performance than a standard HTTP request
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