Re: Finding PKIX Servers!

[EKR <ekr@xxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Probert <AndrewP@rotek.com.au> writes:
> Yeah .. apologies, my typing was in haste, I know HTTP is over IP.
Uh, not to be difficult, but not over IP either. Over TCP.

> I meant to allude to simplicity of the transport i.e. you can Telnet to a
> Web server and hand-type HTTP protocol, so the underlying comms is very
> simple, but you are pushing a lot of stuff up into the HTTP application.
It's not the simplicity of the transport that's the issue. There
are plenty of protocols that run directly over TCP that can't be
hand-typed (SSL comes to mind.) The simplicity comes in because
it's ASCII text. 

IMHO, as a protocol implementor, this is a major advantage, both
from the perspective of debugging and of implementing.

-Ekr

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[Eric Rescorla                                   ekr@rtfm.com]