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CIA.vc shuts down

Posted Oct 11, 2012 8:40 UTC (Thu) by djc (subscriber, #56880)
Parent article: CIA.vc shuts down

It's pretty amazing to me that people would actually switch TO a system using SOAP, which is apparently what KGB uses for their API.


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CIA.vc shuts down

Posted Oct 11, 2012 10:34 UTC (Thu) by jnareb (subscriber, #46500) [Link]

> It's pretty amazing to me that people would actually switch TO a system using SOAP, which is apparently what KGB uses for their API.

Nb. CIA.vc used XML-RPC, which is not much better. irker uses JSON.

CIA.vc shuts down

Posted Oct 11, 2012 10:41 UTC (Thu) by djc (subscriber, #56880) [Link]

Are you actually familiar with XML-RPC and SOAP? There's a world of difference in the complexity between the two.

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Posted Oct 12, 2012 3:15 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

CIA.vc shuts down

Posted Oct 12, 2012 11:49 UTC (Fri) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848) [Link]

Aah, rereading that makes me delighted to no longer be working anywhere near such silliness.

...simple.

Posted Oct 18, 2012 13:17 UTC (Thu) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

It's not just silliness, it's worse than failure...

CIA.vc shuts down

Posted Oct 11, 2012 15:37 UTC (Thu) by joey (subscriber, #328) [Link]

KGB is switching to JSON actually. Although a typical deployment has a very fast network between the bot and client (probably on the same server), so SOAP's bloat doesn't seem too important.

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