- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:29:37 -0800
- To: "David W. Morris" <dwm@xpasc.com>
- Cc: ipp@pwg.org, http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>> > No application should use HTTP as a transport. > >As an absolute statement, that's absurd. Everything done with HTTP is >running applications. It is myoptic to claim that a CGI program is >anything other than an application which uses HTTP as the transport. The Web uses HTTP as a transfer protocol, not a transport protocol. HTTP includes application semantics and any application that conforms to those semantics while using HTTP is also using it as a transfer protocol. Those that don't are using it as a transport protocol, which is just a waste of bytes. This is a topic for some future IETF hallway conversation, not two standards mailing list, so I apologize in advance for not continuing this further. ....Roy
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