- From: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@innosoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:36:24 -0800 (PST)
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
- Cc: ipp@pwg.org
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > >Should every > >application that uses HTTP as a transport build in its own HTTP > >implementation, even if one is already available on the platform? > > No application should use HTTP as a transport. I _strongly_ agree. > If it used HTTP as HTTP, > there wouldn't be any need for a separate implementation, but it would > still be desirable to base the service on the best capabilities of HTTP > and not on the characteristics that might be true of some other resources > that are accessible via HTTP. Well said. - Chris
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