Re: How to add new "protocols" ?
touch@isi.edu
Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:26:10 -0800
> 1) HTTP is usually trasferred over TCP, but there are cases (e.g. squid
HTTP is always over TCP.
If you want to make a new protocol, HTUP which uses unreliable transport
but is otherwise identical, that's another story.
i.e.,
htup://....
> And, what is the correct way to make the mechanism explicit ? Perhaps by
> instructing the browser/server to use TCP only, and then add, locally to
> the client/server, an independent gateway which does the translation ?
Explicit - change the protocol mane.
Implicit, maybe a gateway would work.
JOe
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