Re: HTTP Grub?

[Alex Thiel]

On Wednesday 01 May 2002 19:36, Mario Klebsch wrote:
> Am Mittwoch den, 1. Mai 2002, um 19:13, schrieb Alex Thiel:
> > On Wednesday 01 May 2002 18:26, Mario Klebsch wrote:
> >> You have to implement TCP for it. Since TCP is not that easy to
> >> implement, I would suspect, is is easier to go for NFS, because it only
> >> needs UDP, which is already implemented for TFTP.
> >>
> >> 73, Mario
> >
> > No, HTTP is independent of the transport layer. You'll have to use a
> > HTTP
> > server that supports UDP.
>
> HTTP works on datagram protocols? Are you sure? I have never seen
> anything like it, and I cannot imagine, how it sould work.
>

Why shouldn't it work? The UDP layer is not concerned with what the data 
packets contain, may it be HTTP requests or whatever. At least that's what I 
understand the layered structure of the network is for.

If is HTTP over UDP is implemented in some HTTP server is a different issue, 
of course.

Cheers,
        Alex