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The AMQP protocol - RabbitMQ Tutorial
From the course: Learning RabbitMQ
The AMQP protocol
- Let's take a look at the most important protocol in RabbitMQ, the AMQP protocol. RabbitMQ supports multiple messaging protocols. Examples are AMQP 0-9-1, STOMP, MQTT, and AMQP 1.0. Of these protocols, AMQP 0-9-1 is probably the most popular and widely supported, so let's have a look. AMQP is short for Advanced Message Queuing Protocol. It's a binary protocol, which means your message will be sent in a binary format. Before we get into that, let's look at what a text protocol is. HTTP, the hypertext transfer protocol, is a great example. When you make a HTTP request, it looks something like this. The server can then respond in a similar fashion. Even if the actual data being sent is binary, for example, in the case of an image, as you can see, the field names, like Date, ETag, and Content-Length, are also transmitted. In the case of a binary protocol, the field names aren't transmitted. A receiving site can…
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