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Subject: Re: Blocking non-http
From: "W.C. Epperson" <epperson @ vak12ed . edu>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 15:44:10 EDT
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
Reply-to: epperson @ vak12ed . edu

Russ is alleged to have said:
> HTTP is not a transport protocol, IP is, and your statement
> proves that you see HTTP as a transport protocol. HTTP doesn't have any
> mechanisms to deal with differentiating traffic types as IP does.

Well.  Most of us were laboring under the misconception, induced by RFC1812,
et al., that IP was a network protocol and tcp/udp were transport 
protocols....
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Senior SE                        clearly understood before using it....
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