[5621] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: holding connections open: a modest proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Troth)
Thu Sep 15 14:31:01 1994
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 20:15:02 +0200
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From: Rick Troth <troth@rice.edu>
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> > The server sends a binary stream in packets,
> > each packet prefixed with a 2-byte packet
> > length in network byte order. Packets can be
> > any convenient size from 1-65K bytes. The data
> > stream is terminated by a zero-length packet.
>
> ARG! What's with the 2-byte lengths!?
>
> Why in the world would you limit packets to 64K?
Chill, Darren.
I don't think he really meant to limit packets to 64K,
rather, segments (yeah ... that's the word ... yeah "segments").
I have reasons that would make me prefer the 2-byte length.
But the suggestion en-whole (zero length segment terminates, 2-byte
length, all of it) solves exactly >one< problem. Were we to add
real structure to the stream, we'd need something more complete.
> -- Darren
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Rick Troth <troth@rice.edu>, Rice University, Information Systems
