RE: [xml-dev] MS thinks HTTP Needs Replacing???
by =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bill_de_h=D3ra?= other posts by this author
Feb 27 2002 3:34PM messages near this date
Re: [xml-dev] HTTPEctomy considered bad (was RE: RE: [xml-dev] MSthinks
HTTP Needs Replacing???)
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RE: [xml-dev] MS thinks HTTP Needs Replacing???
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@[...].com]
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> 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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