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Re: [tcpm] TCP Tuning for HTTP - update

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Wed, 17 August 2016 23:26 UTC

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To: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, "tcpm@ietf.org" <tcpm@ietf.org>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Patrick McManus <pmcmanus@mozilla.com>, Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
From: Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu>
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On 8/17/2016 4:17 PM, Adrien de Croy wrote:
>> FTP had a passive mode even back then that avoids this issue. It also
>> had suspend/resume, compression, and format conversion.
>
> Those all take more round trips to negotiate.  As for format
> conversion..... bad idea, never should have been the server's job.
Sure, but they can be negotiated once for a connection.

FTP also supports wildcard retrieval (e.g., "get *"), which can help
with anticipation.

My point is that FTP could have been much better place to start towards
a transaction protocol.

Joe

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