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On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 10:02, Bill de hÓra wrote: > Surely what makes HTTP different from RPC is that HTTP is a > networking protocol, RPC is a moniker which describes a style of > network computing. Another way of saying this is that the HTT > protocol is a linguistic abstraction for enabling and framing the > distribution of hypertext. RPC identifies a pattern or style for > distributed computing but is not itself a language for computing. > Sorry to be a pedant, but RPC and HTTP are as apples to oranges. If you compare them directly, yes. 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. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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