Accessing webduino without a browser

[Jeff]

I have a quick question. If the arduino is reprogrammed so that
clients access the arduino using an application instead of a browser,
then it doesn't need to follow the http protocol. Is the arduino
still considered a web server then? Is this how Netflix and various
online video games like League of Legends operate, since they are not
played while inside browsers?

[Ben Combee]

No, it doesn't have to follow HTTP for those. However, more and more
applications use HTTP for talking, even outside of a web browser.
This is due to useful command line tools like curl for testing web
APIs and support for HTTP calls built into many programming languages
or environments.

[Thomas Amberg]

Hi Jeff,

You're right, HTTP is not the only protocol that works over a TCP connection. But it's also true that browsers are not the only viable HTTP clients. One advantage of HTTP is that firewalls, proxies and Internet routers know this protocol and do not interfere with it. Also, the request / reply pattern specified by HTTP makes it easier to build distributed systems without coupling clients and servers to tightly.

Cheers,
tamberg

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