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by denton-scratch 1403 days ago
If you can rely on the name of the protocol as an accurate description, then LDAP would actually be "lightweight", UDP packets would be assembled by users, and SSL would be secure.

If HTTP represents documents as text, then the "hypertext" part of the name becomes misleading, because you can't put hyperlinks in plain text. That is: the protocol is misnamed, because the leading "HT" stands for "Hypertext", not "Hyper Text". It's designed to transfer HTML.

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> If you can rely on the name of the protocol as an accurate description, then LDAP would actually be "lightweight", UDP packets would be assembled by users, and SSL would be secure.

Also SOAP would be simple: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple