Re: [HTTPfutures] Dan Connolly on HTTP goofs and musings / Two Way Web

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From: Dug Song (dugsong@monkey.org)
Date: Fri Aug 18 2000 - 08:50:39 PDT


On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Lucas Gonze wrote:

> In other words, the browser assumptions of the infrastructure force us
> to reinvent TCP on top of HTTP as if HTTP were IP, and that leads to a
> situation where we get TCP, except slow and buggy.

there's already (bad) precedence for this in the IETF - see RPCSEC_GSS
(RFC 2203) for instance.

-d.

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