"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
>  
> ...
>  
>  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.

There is a difference between saying that HTTP is related to RPC and
saying that HTTP is an RPC protocol like XML-RPC or SOAP-RPC.

 Paul Prescod

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