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Re:The 7-bit Internet by sergiosgc on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @07:07PM (#6023418)
Wrong. An encrypted text session is different from a purely for binary session (encrypted or not). The former can be mangled from text by a generic encryption proxy, the latter needs a protocol-specific analyser.
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Re:The 7-bit Internet by 9h1d9j809s on Thursday July 11, 2013 @03:01AM (#6024818)
I don't get it. Why does it matter if your tool just decrypts SSL or you use a tool that decrypts SSL and additionally unpacks the binary representation of HTTP 2.0?

The output is exactly the same - plain old HTTP.

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Re:The 7-bit Internet by denzquix on Thursday July 11, 2013 @07:21AM (#6025410)
The point is that HTTP may not be the be-all end-all protocol that we will ever want to use on the open web, and encouraging any potential new protocols to take HTTP's lead and use an arbitrary binary encoding that requires protocol-specific tools to make sense of, is maybe not a decision we should take lightly.
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