Vote for the best protocol for the given scenario

Question

I have a design decision to make. I need your advice.

Requirements:

• A server and a client. client is typically a mobile phone.
• Connected through t

Answer 1

Option 1 is a good option if you can make it efficient for your purpose. But I would like go for option 2 as long as option 1 is not required. Option 2 is well implemented and have good support. It should not create new threads every time if you use HTTP 1.1

But if you only have to transfer text then you can use your option 1 and some text compressing. Though there is a bit overhead to decompress the text it should too much. But it will reduce the bandwidth use of the mobile devices.