8 Nov
2021
8 Nov
'21
3:27 p.m.
On Nov 7, 2021, at 9:54 PM, Peter Lothberg <roll at
stupi.com> wrote:
In the "old days" we did SMTP over DECnet, has anyone considered doing Telnet,
FTP, HTTP etc over
DECnet transport?
I've thought about http over DECnet. That would be really easy. The obvious way to
deal with any TCP-based protocol is just to send the byte streams over DECnet messages, in
the same fashion as DECnet/Ultrix streaming mode DECnet sockets do. (Precisely how that
works I don't remember.) In the case of HTTP, a natural simplification would be to
send the entire header, in both directions, as a single message, with any data following
in one or more additional messages.
The DECnet object number for HTTP should be 80, obviously. :-)
paul