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0 pointschrismeller3y ago0 comments

I’ve come to treat residential ISPs as basically a transit for HTTP. As someone else in the thread pointed out that’s all that 99.99% of customers care about, and unfortunately you’re talking about a lowest common denominator here.

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im3w1l3y ago

And this is (one of the reasons) why you should design modern protocols to use https as transport layer.

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0 pointschrismeller3y ago0 comments

I’ve come to treat residential ISPs as basically a transit for HTTP. As someone else in the thread pointed out that’s all that 99.99% of customers care about, and unfortunately you’re talking about a lowest common denominator here.

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im3w1l3y ago

And this is (one of the reasons) why you should design modern protocols to use https as transport layer.

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