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Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
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Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:35:24 -0800
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<001701c0b611$d33d19b0$0200000a@maynardibm>; from Maynard Kang on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:28:43PM +0100
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Re: HTTP Transport? (was: Re: Security Design Team)
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:28:43PM +0100, Maynard Kang wrote: > William Tan wrote: > > I do not see any technical advantage over TCP that HTTP provides, in this > > context anyway. > > > > wil. > > Actually I don't think you can compare TCP and HTTP just like that. They > are transport methods at different layers (HTTP is TCP based in any case). But http is just being used as a transport protocol -- you will have to implement all the protocol elements on top of it, anyway. So the comparison with plain old tcp is probably fairly accurate. > You'll have to compare HTTP with some "undefined or new TCP-based > application-layer transport protocol" We have to do a new application-layer protocol anyway. -- Kent Crispin "Be good, and you will be kent@songbird.com lonesome." -- Mark Twain