- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 11:32:18 -0500
- To: "John Ibbotson" <john_ibbotson@uk.ibm.com>
- cc: discuss@apps.ietf.org
> However, we can't ignore HTTP in > the near term and adding reliability to it with relatively few changes > would be a pragmatic solution - I disagree that it is pragmatic. In practice HTTP implementations often do not follow finer points of the current specifications, much less any extensions necessary for reliable messaging. Users will have a difficult time distinguishing garden-variety HTTP from the versions of HTTP that support messaging. And firewalls are even worse than clients and servers about following the specifications, and they are harder to replace. In practice, HTTP is optimized for casual web browsing. Trying to get it to do something else is an exercise in futility. I don't disagree with the idea that a reliable messaging protocol and infrastructure would be useful, just that layering it on top of HTTP is a good first step. Keith
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