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Re: [touch@isi.edu: draft may be of interest]

From: Zheng Wang <Z.Wang@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 10:41:52 +0100
To: http-wg <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Message-Id: <5754.834745312@cs.ucl.ac.uk>

 
> P-HTTP is basically "IP over TCP" - given the necessary
> chunking, muxing, etc. I don't know why that isn't as frightening
> to anyone else...
 
I think HTTP is more like an application protocol over TCP. To some extend,
HTTP is not that dissimilar to FTP (you also get persistent connections,
chunking and muxing).

Cheers
Zheng

Received on Friday, 14 June 1996 02:49:02 EDT

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