On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > That seems like orders of magnitude more complexity than necessary, > especially given that the only tangible benefit is a modicum of > improvement in ease of debugging. > > In fact, I would argue that the increased complexity actually increases > the need for debugging more than the text-based approach actually gives > you in terms of debugging. Debugging binary protocols isn't especially > difficult. You just pipe tcpdump through hexdump and less, and the issue > is done. The protocol is so simple that you can hack together a read/write > console in less than an hour. I totally agree; and for debugging, I believe a protocol-decoder/dissector/display-filter could also be quite easily added to Wireshark or similar network packet analyzers. -- Thomas Broyer /tɔ.ma.bʁwa.je/
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