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A comment on HTTP 2.0: GTFO (General Termination of Future Operations). Parent comment

Re:HTTP 2.0: GTFO (General Termination of Future Operations) by jimktrains2 on Monday January 27, 2014 @11:13AM (#7131062)
But that's the thing...it's _not_ a communication's protocol. It's a transfer protocol...
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Re:HTTP 2.0: GTFO (General Termination of Future Operations) by ll_cool_james on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @01:44AM (#7135724)
To-may-to, to-mah-to..
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Re:HTTP 2.0: GTFO (General Termination of Future Operations) by jimktrains2 on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @12:47PM (#7138487)
No, because a communication protocol has to handle all the types of problems HTTP and TCP solve. A transfer protocol is concerned with moving data and meta data, not the problems TCP solves.
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