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Asked: 2026-05-13T18:03:17+00:00

I need a simple, lightweight authentication and data transfer mechanism (on .NET platform). I

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I need a simple, lightweight authentication and data transfer mechanism (on .NET platform). I have looked a WCF and SOAP etc. they all seem too top-heavy and complicated for my needs. I need something simple and straight-forward leading me to a chat protocol like Jabber. My data-transfer is mostly small – example: user searches for something and gets some results back etc.

Given Jabber does authentication, encryption and what-have-you, any reasons why I should not be using it? suggestions on alternates?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Sounds like XMPP might be a good fit, but you should consider HTTP as well. XMPP probably only makes sense if you really need stateful messaging/transfer. HTTP could work quite well for long-running connections if you use e.g. Transfer-Encoding: chunked.

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