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Just Use HTTP

Tue Mar 15 17:45:00 2005

Sam is talking about using HTTP. He reference's Tim Bray's WS-Pagecount article on complexity. The assumption is that HTTP is simple. Its not. There are lots of things to watch out for. Starting with identity: when is "a" an "a"? When the Unicode matches? Everyone pretty much agrees that "A" is x41. This is an "attractive nuisance." That's fine as far as it goes, but some things look the same, but are different. A and Alpha (although they look the same) are not the same (different Unicode encodings). There are four encodings for "i" in unicode with different semantics.
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