Re: understanding the http / tcp/ip relation

• To: Bob Futrelle <futrelle@ccs.neu.edu>
• Subject: Re: understanding the http / tcp/ip relation
• From: JCMA@ai.mit.edu (John C. Mallery)
• Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:34:53 -0500
• Cc: www-cl@ai.mit.edu, futrelle@ccs.neu.edu
• Sender: owner-www-cl@ai.mit.edu

It is best to assume that TCP/IP is a reliable transport. HTTP is a protocol.
Read the HTTP spec and you understand the protocol.  The server implements
the protocol, modulo what clients actually implement.

HTTP is a simple request-response model.  Everything goes through http::provide-service.

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