[15124] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MTU of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun Feb 8 13:57:42 1998
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 13:29:00 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199802081524.JAA30391@charon.milepost.com>; from Phil Howard <phil@charon.milepost.com> on Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 09:24:25AM -0600
On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 09:24:25AM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
> My multiplexing protocol would need a persistent TCP connection. There
> would be 254 different subchannels. A byte code of 255 is a flag to the
> multiplex control. 255,255 means a real 255 in the current subchannel.
> 255,0 means EOF in the current subchannel. 255,N means a switch to
> subchannel N (1-254). The sender can determine how many bytes can be
> sent in one subchannel before switching to another. If more features
> might be required, such as per subchannel flow control, then more codes
> could be reserved (it might be good to reserve all of 200-254 for now).
> AFAIK, no valid HTTP would begin with a 255,1 so this multiplexing would
> likely be detectable dynamically against HTTP.
Find a trained Apache module writer, and cut some code. :-)
(PS: that wasn't a smarmy answer: I'd volunteer, but I am not one.
(And besides the browser would have to cooperate.))
Now, for one final comment before we rediect this thread tht eh HTTP-NG
group where it belongs now, make sure you extend the page language at
the same time, so as to allow priority tagging of inlines, so the
buttons can get sent _first_.
Cheers,
-- jra
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