- From: <touch@isi.edu>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 18:10:38 -0700
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com, brusinsk@ibdr.inf.tu-dresden.de
> From: Andreas Brusinsky <brusinsk@ibdr.inf.tu-dresden.de> > To: HTTP workgroup <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com> > Subject: Q: protocolls and fault tolerance > > I am new to this group and don't know what are currently the > topics but have a question I hope to get helped with > in this group. > > Are there implementations of HTTP available based on > ohter protocolls than TCP? We did some analysis of HTTP on T/TCP, ARDP, and a few other base protocols. It was analysis-level only, though. > Or could a HTTP realisation be based on many different underlaying > protocolls? > Furhtermore it might be interesting if HTTP could be realized > straight onto maybe ATM and the other services it uses could be > implemented as additions. HTTP over ATM doesn't make much sense, per se, because: HTTP uses URLs, URLs use DNS, DNS is an name->IPnumber mapping PS - what's the win if straight on ATM? More expensive end equipment? Joe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Touch - touch@isi.edu http://www.isi.edu/~touch/ ISI / Project Leader, ATOMIC-2, LSAM http://www.isi.edu/atomic2/ USC / Research Assistant Prof. http://www.isi.edu/lsam/
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