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Re:The State of HTTP in 2022 by int_19h on Sunday January 01, 2023 @04:50PM (#34211357)
I studied networking in the university, 20 years ago. We did study OSI as well as TCP/IP and the rest of the actual Internet stack, and it was blatantly obvious that the latter doesn't really conform to the former - protocols straddling boundaries etc. For example, TCP is not a strictly transport-layer protocol, since it also handles sessions.

When asked, our prof readily admitted that the OSI model was one of those design-by-committee experiments in purity that quickly broke down IRL.

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