Re: How to add new "protocols" ?
touch@isi.edu
Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:26:09 -0800
> From rsalz@osf.org Wed Feb 19 16:08:54 1997
> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 19:07:56 -0500 (EST)
> From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, touch@ISI.EDU
> Subject: Re: How to add new "protocols" ?
> Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com, masinter@parc.xerox.com, ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> >What is the advantage to a transparent selection of transport
> >protocol, given these constraints??
>
> Working with COTS browsers.
>
> In the dce-web project we supply a localhost proxy that hijacks the
> http tag and tries to access the URL via DCE RPC. By using DCE RPC
> we don't see the constraints Joe mentioned. :)
Doing the proxy is fine, and isn't what
is being proposed by 'transparent selection'-
I guess I missed adding "at the browser"...
Joe
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