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RE: MS thinks HTTP Needs Replacing???

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• Subject: RE: MS thinks HTTP Needs Replacing???
• From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@e...>
• Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:34:12 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] 
>
> If you ask whether HTTP is an implementation of RPC, a 
> protocol built on RPC, no.  I'm not talking about hypertext - 
> I'm talking about the foundations on which the HTTP protocol 
> is itself built.  I find those foundations to look 
> suspiciously related to RPC, however loud the denials of their
> fans.  

Sensible engineers build RPC on top of asynchronous unreliable
protocols. So you start with with async/unordered base and layer
sync/ordered on top; ie RPC can be baked as a set of guarantees and
constraints about messages between processes. If similar guarantees
can be identified in HTTP then you've got a case.

Bill de hÓra

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