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Re:Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming lang... by WrtCdEvrydy on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:38AM (#18979767)
I love the ending... just goes to show that anything you build may be around for years longer than you expect.
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Re:Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming lang... by collinmanderson on Thursday January 24, 2019 @11:23AM (#18990051)
I think we'd have http header compression regardless of packet size. Headers usually make up the majority of an http request. It makes sense to compress that.
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Re:Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming lang... by blattimwind on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:22PM (#18984742)
Though we actually have 9k jumbo frames, which work quite well for bulk data transfer (over fast links).
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Re:Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming lang... by coreypreston on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:57AM (#18979978)
That's a romantic way to look at technical debt! :-P
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Re:Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming lang... by jandrese on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @02:48PM (#18982002)
It's not technical debt, it's more like technical ex-girlfriends.
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