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by pythonslayer 2579 days ago
That is really sad. I just learned about HTTP about 3 months ago when I had to do my first web project so I printed out a random breakdown article on HTTP and what a beautiful design. Sure I know people think it’s far from perfect or whatever. I get that. But I loved reading that article.

As it turns out, I am learning C right now partially because I wanted to add a feature to VLC and got really curious after reading the source code and trying to assess how hard that would be.
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toyg 2578 days ago
> what a beautiful design

I’m curious: what do you find “beautiful” about http? Imho it’s just an average client/server protocol, its best quality being that it privileged readability over efficiency (using plaintext rather than then-popular binary formats).

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theandrewbailey 2578 days ago
> its best quality being that it privileged readability over efficiency (using plaintext rather than then-popular binary formats).

Not true anymore.

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toyg 2578 days ago
Hence the use of past forms for verbs.
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