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What is wrong with HTTP ?

6/25/2009

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Here is a document presenting a review on what is good an bad with HTTP. It provides some light on the choices I made for DIS. I couldn't identify the author's name in the text. Sorry. 

What is wrong with HTTP ?


In this essay, the first of a pair on browser apps, I explore how they are better than traditional desktop apps in some ways, but worse in others. Some of the disadvantages of browser apps are deeply rooted in the use of HTTP URLs for naming. In the second essay, I will present a design sketch for a new platform, are placement for HTTP combining both styles' advantages.Right now, we're seeing a massive shift to browser apps, largely server-side browser apps. As I warned in "People, places, things,and ideas," [18] this move to server-side browser apps imperils our software freedom; I outlined how to solve this problem in "The equivalent of free software for online services." [19] This pair of essays represents more detail on this problem and proposed solution.

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