Reply to post: It's 2018 and people still can't right protocol handlers properly.*

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John Smith 19 Gold badge
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It's 2018 and people still can't right protocol handlers properly.*

Under what circumstances should a mal formed message ever attempt to be processed rather than discarded?

Another classic failure of a SW development pattern.

*Hint. If the protocol can be expressed in a state diagram design the core of the handler in an FSA design tool and have it write the actual code.

Just how many message protocols are so complex they need a Turing complete language to handle all the possibilities?

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