From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 9 21:18:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bamboo.verinet.com (bamboo.verinet.com [204.144.246.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54CE14FF4 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 21:18:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from allenc@verinet.com) Received: from struct. (allenc.verinet.com [199.45.180.181]) by bamboo.verinet.com (8.8.8/8.7.1) with ESMTP id WAA08506 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 22:18:07 -0700 Received: from verinet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by struct. (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA01584 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 22:17:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from allenc@verinet.com) Message-ID: <36E6007D.2C9E8BDD@verinet.com> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 22:17:49 -0700 From: Allen Campbell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: URL and TCPMUX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org While discussing port number assignments for a pile of engineering applications, I brought up the subject of RFC1078 TCPMUX while a web developer was present. He had not heard of TCPMUX before, but he immediately saw that it would be a useful way to supplant the port number component of the URL with something a bit more flexible; a service name. This seems to be a reasonable and obvious idea, so I read the relevant parts of the central URL RFCs (1738 and 2396) and searched the rest. AFAICT, this is an original idea among the published RFCs. Comments? -- Allen Campbell | Lurking at the bottom of the allenc@verinet.com | gravity well, getting old. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message