Comment Http overhead (Score 1) 476
Well, to send your 5 bytes of "ROFL\n" example, the "good old no frills plain TCP communication" comes with > 40 bytes of headers as well (TCP and IP). That gives at least 800% overhead even without any kind of application protocol, so arguing that TCP/IP is "cheap" is to stretch the facts a bit.
If you're running servers that are to busy to run with standard application protocols (HTTP), maybe you need to drop the protocols below as well? :-)
If you're running servers that are to busy to run with standard application protocols (HTTP), maybe you need to drop the protocols below as well?
