RE: Article: Fat protocols slow Web services

	My point is that there is a  pressing need to have a  
widely accepted industry standard for this.  
	HTTPR is surely one such interesting effort.
Regards,
Ravi

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=>-----Original Message-----
=>From: John Evdemon [mailto:jevdemon@vitria.com]
=>Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:04 PM
=>To: 'trivedi@india.hp.com'; 'Roger L. Costello'; 
=>'Xml-Dist-App@W3. Org'
=>Subject: RE: Article: Fat protocols slow Web services
=>
=>
=>On Wednesday, January 09, 2002 11:21 AM, Ravi Trivedi wrote:
=>> 
=>> I think there is a sufficient need to have a reliable HTTP
=>> protocol support.
=>> 
=>IBM has done some interesting work in this area:
=>
=>"Reliable HTTP (HTTPR) is a new protocol that offers the
=> reliable delivery of HTTP packets between the server and
=> client. This solves a number of issues that are evident in
=> current HTTP and opens the way to reliable messaging between
=> Web services."
=>
=>http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-phtt/
=>