Re: [Imap-protocol] If Crispin were creating IMAP today how would it be different?

Dave Cridland <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Mar 2015 21:24:34 +0000
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On 9 March 2015 at 21:17, Bill Janssen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hoa V. DINH <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I think using human readable text protocol is still a very good idea
> since it makes it easier to debug just by logging input/output of the
> protocol.
>
> Yes, that's always been the argument.  On the other hand, you don't
> read those logs with your bare Mark-I eyeballs.  You use a tool, even
> if it's just less+xterm.  Writing a WireShark plugin is so streamlined
> these days that I see no real advantage in the text formats anymore.
>

That would indeed explain the recent resurgence of ASN.1 based protocols.

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