4 Gotcha’s of text-based protocols

As I stated many times, I think binary encoding is superior to text based encoding. However, usually, when you are a software engineer implementing a protocol, the protocol choice is not yours. In this post, I will consider the pitfalls and gotcha’s of text-based protocols and how to design your way around them. I mostly consider protocols defined by ABNF rules (such as SIP). If the protocol uses an XML scheme, there are readily available documents on parsing XML into (read more...)

By Ran Arad  |  July 3rd, 2008  |  Filed under Development, SDKs
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