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Design Space for Bidirectional protocols
draft-loreto-design-space-bidirectional-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Salvatore Loreto , Peter Saint-Andre , Greg Wilkins , Stefano Salsano
Last updated 2009-10-19
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Abstract

As technologies that enable bidirectional communication over HTTP have become more pervasive, interest has grown in (1) defining improved mechanisms for support of existing technologies (short-term solutions such as new HTTP headers) and (2) laying the foundation for development of new bidirectional protocols (long-term solutions such as WebSocket, Bidirectional Web Transfer Protocol, and Reverse HTTP). In order to provide context for such work, this document provides a first tentative map of the design space for bidirectional HTTP, with special attention to deployed infrastructure (e.g. web clients, intermediaries, firewalls, NATs, web servers) and programming environments.

Authors

Salvatore Loreto
Peter Saint-Andre
Greg Wilkins
Stefano Salsano

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