HTTPX - a new version of HTTP for "access to materials that may be
objectionable". It seems absolutely everybody wants to use HTTP for
something else these days...
I have checked my calender, it is not April 1st.
Carl-Uno
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>Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 07:29:40 PDT
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> Title : Content-Specific Hypertext Transfer Protocol
> Author(s) : R. Garbrick
> Filename : draft-garbrick-shtp-00.txt
> Pages : 3
> Date : 30-Jun-98
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> This document describes HTTPX, a protocol for providing access to
> materials that may be objectionable or that have age or locale-based
> restrictions, while providing a simple method to filter such content
> where required.
>
> HTTPX uses the protocol HTTP 1.1 ([RFC 2068]), with the single
> exception of designating a separate range of TCP and UDP port
> numbers that are allocated to a specific content type.
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Carl-Uno Manros
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