eTech05: “Just” Use HTTP

Sam Ruby talks about why we can’t “just use http”.

Ouch. My head hurts. This is important stuff, and I do mostly understand it, but I’m not gonna do it justice by trying to blog about it in real-time. I’ll just listen and you can …

View the slides for yourself.

Summary: Comparing characters and uris is surprisingly more difficult and important than you might otherwise imagine (think: security holes).

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