- From: Rich Salz <rsalz@zolera.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 11:43:40 -0400
- To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@akamai.com>, xml-dist-app@w3.org
> HTTP *is* an application. it's not intended to be used as a substrate > for other applications. The abstract of RFC 2068, HTTP/1.1 spec, seems to say otherwise The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. It is a generic, stateless, object-oriented protocol which can be used for many tasks, such as name servers and distributed object management systems, through extension of its request methods. A feature of HTTP is the typing and negotiation of data representation, allowing systems to be built independently of the data being transferred.
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