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by rco8786 3359 days ago
How is that not a problem in HTTP?

This is just API versioning, that needs to happen regardless of the protocol you choose.

edit I see you mean the protocol itself (like if gRPC goes from version 1 to 1.2 or something). Yes, that's a thing... most protocol developers are careful about backwards compatibility to allow for some services to be behind a few minors to account for this. Also, HTTP still isn't invulnerable to this...HTTP/2 is very much a thing.