Yep, and i wrote about differences to such approach in the post. Don't get me wrong, this is definitely a hack, I'm not saying people should stop doing it the old way.
Likewise. While I appreciate the concept of a bridge (I'm a strong believer that the fastest app is the app that does practically nothing at all, and I can see the benefit of using a TCP-bridge like thing to make something faster), I just think we should not be reinventing the wheel.
That is to say, if you need a TCP connection to any server, you probably should not be implementing it over HTTP (well, this is where definitions get difficult, since you know, HTTP is technically TCP. Fuck)
