Re:ReverseHttp
by tonyg on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @03:59AM
(#509685)
"This is largely for people that want to use HTTP as a message-passing protocol, but use it in a bi-directional manner between possibly NAT'd hosts."
That is exactly it. You've got it.
HTTP makes an almost ideal message passing protocol: it has a rich and battle-tested addressing model; it is asymmetric in a helpful way (really! the response codes are similar to ICMP messages, where the requests are similar to IP datagrams); it is widely supported and deployed; it is content neutral.
That is exactly it. You've got it.
HTTP makes an almost ideal message passing protocol: it has a rich and battle-tested addressing model; it is asymmetric in a helpful way (really! the response codes are similar to ICMP messages, where the requests are similar to IP datagrams); it is widely supported and deployed; it is content neutral.
It doesn't even have to be inefficient ;-) (http://www.lshift.net/blog/2009/02/27/streamlining-http)