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Re:IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district by throwawayboise on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @04:46PM (#28844862)
> Passing strings from program to program is a pain

The internet has been pretty successful and many popular protocols (http, smtp, etc) are exactly "passing strings from program to program"

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Re:IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district by majormajor on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @09:50PM (#28847330)
And behind the scenes of internet-based services there's a whole ecosystem of "how can we do shit more robustly than just passing strings around" (or even for "better than XML or JSON").
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Re:IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @04:50PM (#28844897)
Which is why all browsers render the same thing exactly the same way and there's no need at all to test more than one. Yep.
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Re:IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district by oneplane on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @06:19PM (#28845764)
The presentation layer has nothing to do with he protocol layer...

If you pump some serialised binary into a browser it will still render wrong.

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