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HTTP lets you inherit a large and diverse body of infrastructure - load balancing, monitoring, testing, logging, etc etc.

Also, some combination of websockets and/or keep-alive would yield most of the benefits of using just TCP.

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This is all true, and HTTP really is a great choice, but that's the point I'm trying to make--it's a choice and there are alternatives. Specifically for mobile apps, those alternative are really attractive.

Most of the complex HTTP infrastructure exists to support a the complex HTTP protocol.

Get rid of HTTP, and pretty much all of the complexity of the HTTP stack evaporates.

Exactly! You said what I could not say, but thats exactly how I feel.

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