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0 pointscalineczka6mo ago0 comments

> message oriented

Very well said. I think there is enormous complexity in many layers because we don't have that building block easily available.

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mort966mo ago· 2 in thread

It's the main reason why I use websockets for a whole lot of things. I don't wanna build my own message chunking layer on top of TCP every time.

mgaunard6mo ago

WebSocket is full of web-tech silliness; you'd be better off doing your own framing.

mort966mo ago

Well, it also has the advantage of providing pretty decent encryption for free through WSS.

But yeah, where that's unnecessary, it's probably just as easy to have a 4-byte length prefix, since TCP handles the checksum and retransmit and everything for you.

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