Best windows Client Server lib

Georg Wrede georg at nospam.org
Wed Apr 9 07:58:08 PDT 2008


Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
> Heh, this is very related to my work... not to mention I write HTTP and 
> FTP protocol implementations for fun...
> 
> It sounds like reusing HTTP for communication wouldn't be a bad thing 
> for you.  With it, you would see the following benefits:
> 
> 1. Standardized, so adding clients should be fairly easy.
> 2. Provides easy ways to use encryption (SSL.)
> 3. Fairly efficient (keep alive, chunked, etc.) assuming you use HTTP/1.1.
> 4. Supports caching and should (depending on your actual data storage.) 
> ease scaling concerns should you worry about them.

And, people from behind a firewall can use it.



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