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Re:HTTP 2.0: GTFO (General Termination of Future Operations) by pwg on Monday January 27, 2014 @11:59AM (#7131424)
> Binary protocols usually just specify the length of the data, followed by a binary blob with the data. MUCH simpler!

It is possible to have the same simplicity with a textual protocol, it is just that most text protocol designers don't bother with explicit prefixed lengths:

For example, see: http://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt

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Re:HTTP 2.0: GTFO (General Termination of Future Operations) by wmf on Monday January 27, 2014 @02:38PM (#7132606)
When people say "text protocol" I think they really mean "something I can type into telnet"; stuff like netstrings and BEEP don't really count.
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