Re:When will web browsers be complete?
by pjc50 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:16AM
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It may have been language-agnostic, but it was never going to be OS-agnostic. Like everything Microsoft it only worked with Microsoft implementations on both ends.
> saner (i.e. binary) protocols
.. which only had one canonical implementation on each end.
If I remember rightly, the protocol for accessing Exchange from Outlook was MAPI over either DCOM or DCE/RPC. Despite some reverse engineering efforts, this is why there were no Open Source drop-in replacements for Exchange, and clients accessing Exchange always did so over IMAP, thereby losing features.
> saner (i.e. binary) protocols
.. which only had one canonical implementation on each end.
If I remember rightly, the protocol for accessing Exchange from Outlook was MAPI over either DCOM or DCE/RPC. Despite some reverse engineering efforts, this is why there were no Open Source drop-in replacements for Exchange, and clients accessing Exchange always did so over IMAP, thereby losing features.
Similarly SAMBA is DCE/RPC. https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/DCERPC