The full HTTP protocol was developed
to provide:
- Multimedia
- Postscript, graphics ,
sound, movies, application-specific...
- Format negotiation
- Future-proof extensibility
- Authentication
- Privacy, charging,
etc
- Optimization
- of transfer format,
by time and qualitiy.
- Feedback
- Who is reading what, using
what software, what documents refer
to this one? Reverse link building.
- Front end update
- Annotate, Post,
reply Check in and out, operate.
- Form filling
- Complex queries, etc
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Tim BL