Discuss how you might rewrite SMTP or HTTP to make use of a hypothetical general-purpose request/reply protocol.

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Discuss how you might rewrite SMTP or HTTP to make use of a hypothetical general-purpose request/reply protocol. Could an appropriate analog of persistent connections be moved from the application layer into such a transport protocol? What other application tasks might be moved into this protocol?

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Computer Networks A Systems Approach

ISBN: 9780128182000

6th Edition

Authors: Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie

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