On: HTTP: , FTP:, and Dict:?

[jolux]

In my experience HTTP is a better foundation for novel protocols in most cases.

[LambdaComplex → jolux]

Doesn't HTTP require binary data to be converted to base64 encoding, thereby increasing its size on the wire? That seems suboptimal for a lot of use cases

[devmor → LambdaComplex]

It does not - you are perhaps thinking of GET queries: URL data often must be base64 encoded as URLs are parsed as characters.

HTTP bodies can be made up of any data in any encoding you wish.

[kragen → LambdaComplex]

no, it does not, neither in requests nor in replies. possibly you are thinking of smtp

[LambdaComplex → kragen]

> possibly you are thinking of smtp

You're right, I definitely was