> > 1) HTTP is usually trasferred over TCP, but there are cases (e.g. squid > > HTTP is always over TCP. Correct. But conceptually, it does not need to. It's just one request, one response, and there's no reason, other than performance, why it could not travel over a different (reliable) transport. HTTP defines some optimizations designed after TCP (e.g. persistent connections) but they in principle could work as well over DECNET or Unix sockets. Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________Received on Friday, 14 February 1997 22:17:38 UTC
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