Invisible wrote:
> Uhuh. And how many PhDs work for Google?

Lots. So? It's not hard to make a web crawler, as long as you're not trying 
to understand data that *isn't* presented in HTML tags. How hard is it to 
find all the URLs in a HTML document?

>> But it's hard to get specific information out in an automated way. 
>> That's why people invented HTTP-based APIs like SOAP.
> 
> Why would you base a protocol on HTTP?

Because it's easy and the standards are there to say how to look things up 
and encode the bytes and do the logging in and encryption and things like 
that. If you have a request/response model, it's not a bad protocol. If you 
have something more complex than a request/response model, you should be 
using something like BEEP.

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