Second time I run into a developer on itch.io who doesn't know what a #web server is and thinks they need to code a #NodeJS app to serve static files.
This is terrifying. It's the future Google wants to build, with their HTTP 2.0 and Wasm: a future when even the basics are horribly hard and not even developers know how the web works because it's all a black box.
I'm begging you: fight this. Educate people. Don't let openness die.
@notimetoplay So-called "HTTP 2" is /not HTTP/ and I will die on this hill!!
@silverwizard @IceWolf That was no typo. HTTP 2 is binary. It can no longer be used in trivial ways.
@notimetoplay @silverwizard Yeah, exactly.
And as for "but efficiency!!!" – if it worked on 1990s computers, it works more than fine now on our vastly faster, vastly higher bandwidth ones.
Text-based protocols are GOOD, not Evil that Should Be Replaced.
@LunaDragofelis @silverwizard @notimetoplay Forgot that, yeah! =^.^=
And if you need to do multiple whatsis, uhhhhhh, requests, Connection: keep-alive :3
@LunaDragofelis @silverwizard @notimetoplay Text also has another big benefit I just thought of now! It's super easy to ignore unknown headers.