It is so reassuring when "modern" is a third of a century old.
Sorry, but I am finding this new found wisdom just a little frustrating.
At 9:40 -0500 2008/12/05, Henning Schulzrinne wrote:
Wouldn't it have been nice if the de facto APIs in use today were more
along the lines of ConnectTo(DNS name, service/port).
This certainly seems to be the way that "modern" APIs are heading.
If I'm not mistaken, Java, PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python and most other
scripting languages have a socket-like API that does not expose IP
addresses, but rather connects directly to DNS names. (In many
cases, they unify file and socket opening and specify the
application protocol, to, so that one can do
fopen("http://www.ietf.org";), for example.) Thus, we're well on our
way towards the goal of making (some) application oblivious to
addresses. I suspect that one reason for the popularity of these
languages is exactly that programmers don't want to bother
remembering when to use ntohs().
Henning
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