On Saturday 21 June 2008 01:13:59 Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Peter wrote:
> > True, but it is always easier to use a popular protocol. In HTTP your
> > request would be encoded as a single line, like:
> >
> > GET /%FC\r\n
>
> Certainly not always easier.  It might or might not be easier in this case.
> If I remember right, there is some handshaking when a HTTP connection is
> first started.  There is nogitiation of the HTTP version or something back
> and forth.  It's not all that easy, especially if you haven't done it
> before.

It's actually:
GET / HTTP/1.0

which gives you the command (GET), url (/) and version (HTTP/1.0).
There is no back-and-forth for handshaking for plain old HTTP 1.0. It's a 
fairly simple protocol.

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