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Re:How Do Routers Work, Really? by Izkata on Friday September 11, 2020 @03:57AM (#24440169)
Reads to me like the design of HTTP combined 5, 6, and 7 into one.
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Re:How Do Routers Work, Really? by hinkley on Friday September 11, 2020 @10:32AM (#24443242)
Except now we have session and application protocols built on top of HTTP using additional software, which according to OSI would be additional layers. You can in a lot of cases use the standard to achieve this, but frequently enough we don’t.
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