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[CW Dead Bird] Birds aren't real (lemmy.nz)

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[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

That was kind of the author's point: that HTTP is so broadly specified, and at that point had so many unnecessary RFCs extending it, that you could halfway-sensibly write a hardware control protocol by HTTP alone even if that was a terrible idea.

Source: I wrote the tea-brewing extension to HTCPCP, which takes it another notch into the ridiculous.