- From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:07:08 +0100
- To: HTTP workgroup <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Andreas Brusinsky wrote: > >From what does it depend how HTTP transmits special MIME typed data? > I mean are there different transmission schemes used (e.g. connection > oriented, connection free, error tolerant ..) > If there are different schemes used is then the transmission > automaticaly > be delegated to a different protocoll or are there really different > transmission schemes implemented within HTTP. Although HTTP can nominally be used over different protocols, currently HTTP as we know it is always over TCP. > Is the QUALITY specifier in an ACCEPT Method really implemented? > I mean if HTTP is build on top of tcp then transmission should be > save in any case. So if I would specify a q<1 it would be of no use as > > long the transmission is done by HTTP. You misunderstand the purpose of quality - it defines your preference for particular content types, not the QoS (which is what I suspect you are getting at). Cheers, Ben. -- Ben Laurie Phone: +44 (181) 994 6435 Email: ben@algroup.co.uk Freelance Consultant and Fax: +44 (181) 994 6472 Technical Director URL: http://www.algroup.co.uk/Apache-SSL A.L. Digital Ltd, Apache Group member (http://www.apache.org) London, England. Apache-SSL author
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