How not to design a wire protocol

[Hal Murray]

Eric said:
>> I don't want the UI side of HTTP in ntpd.
> I'd like to understand better what you mean by "the UI side" and
> what your objection is.

Web stuff is complicated.  We'll get into UI wars.
You can't easily script things.

If you want a web UI, we should build that on top of Mode 6 (or a similar 
replacement) or SNMP or ...

> I kind of like the idea that ntpq goes away to be replaced by "anything that
> speaks HTTP".  Got no issue with the peers billboard being displayed by
> links2/Elinks/w3m. :-) 

That would be fine.  I just don't want all the code to do it packaged with 
ntpd.


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