Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 06:45:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (Alex Belits) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, rivers@dignus.com, capriotti0@hotmail.com, capriotti@geocities.com, config@FreeBSD.ORG, joe.shevland@horizonti.com Subject: Re: WebAdmin Message-ID: <199802020645.XAA15364@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980201214440.19801B-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> from "Alex Belits" at Feb 1, 98 09:51:08 pm
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> HTTP has implicit transaction identifier as the representation of > request and response to it are tied together at both client and server > even though there is no explicit identifier that server and client share. > This identifier is replaced by the protocol state in the protocol and > exists on client as paired request and received response to it and at the > server as the same thing (sometimes in rather primitive form of CGI > process id, sometimes as TCP connection, if persistent connections aren't > used, sometimes explicitly). This is not terrifically useful for a text-only install on a serial console. Remember that whatever technology is selected must work without http. What you are describing is an implementation detail for a general interface. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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