[HECnet] "IP protocols on DECnet'

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2021-11-08 15:27, Paul Koning wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Nov 7, 2021, at 9:54 PM, Peter Lothberg <roll at stupi.com> wrote:
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>> 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.

Streaming mode DECnet sockets would be interesting to learn something about.
Because otherwise the problem is really that DECnet is packet based, and 
not byte based like TCP. So there is potentially some problems with 
adapting TCP protocols for DECnet.

> The DECnet object number for HTTP should be 80, obviously.  :-)

:-)
I think we're good. As far as I know, object 80 have never been "allocated".

   Johnny

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