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Re:A case against text protocols by phyrex on Thursday June 17, 2021 @07:52AM (#27538575)
And yet I have definitely copy&pasted cookie headers from the database or log files into the browser - something I’ve never done it could imagine doing with binary protocols
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Re:A case against text protocols by IshKebab on Thursday June 17, 2021 @02:38PM (#27542920)
You could use something like Wireshark to do it with binary protocols. Also lots of binary protocols/formats support a text format to make them readable, e.g. Wasm and Capnp
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