Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA extension proposal (quick action wanted)

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA extension proposal (quick action wanted)
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Sun Dec 09 2001 - 17:58:38 EET


>If I remember correctly http goes both ways. Also its not really a lot
>of baggage - you can f.i. structure your plugin stuff in the filesystem
>tree, so a GET parameters/factor[.html] would just get you a "1.233"
>f.i., and PUT (or was it PUSH?) of the same sort sets the value.
>Note again, using an existing protocol helps development and debugging
>and probably interoperability.

actually, i can tell you from experience that it doesn't. there are 2
reasons:

        1) HTTP is stateless
              this has been widely criticized, and widely praised.
              its already apparent that the LCP protocol cannot
              be stateless

        2) the hard part of handling protocols is not implementing
              formatting, delivery + parsing of messages. its
              integrating the handling of i/o into the structure
              of the client+server. no HTTP library that i've seen
              will help with that. in fact, no protocol library
              of any kind that i've seen helps with that.

>Anyone knows another simple standard protocol that can be used?

i don't understand. why do you want to use a generic, essentially
complex protocol to replace a specific, extremely simple one?

--p


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