Re: HTTP and Media Serving

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Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com> wrote:
> ...  I firmly believe
> that HTTP should NOT be used for real-time continuous media.  The
> URL mechanism allows us to include multiple transport protocols
> (e.g., HTTP, FTP, Gopher) in the web, and if we want to include
> real-time continuous, then we should use a protocol optimized for
> that.  We should not try to turn HTTP into a kitchen-sink protocol,
> making it into a second-rate media protocol while also making it
> harder to implement.

One major point in making HTTP more supportive of media communication
such as this is that a significant number of users will be utilitizing
proxies. Each new protocol must be handled by the proxy, and if you
only have an HTTP proxy, you are out of luck.

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