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RE: Generality of HTTP

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: RE: Generality of HTTP
• From: Al Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:02:27 +0000 (GMT)
• Cc: The Deviants <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0201231447590.11412-100000@l...>

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Al B. Snell wrote:

> Although proper use of HTTP/1.1 will spread the overhead of connection
> setup and teardown, HTTP/1.1 is a relatively complex protocol to implement
> and there is still the issue of the seperate acks of request and response
> as opposed to piggybacking them with the data transfers as UDP-based
> protocols do.

Oooh, forgot to add - those ACK packets may be tiny, but on an ATM
backbone they still take up a full 48-byte cell!

ABS

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