> The article is copyrighted and reposting is explicitly forbidden, but I can
> refer to it:
> news:GUTNBERG%94062522535895@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU
He is right about the relative-cost of initial connection setup.
It's just that he's a few orders of magnitute out. The SHTTP
spec has a nice MIME feature allowing a connection to be reused -
very useful for protocol negotation.
I think he left his terminal unattended...
Mumble - HTML vastly more costly than ASCII mumble...
Christian "It's the only logical explanation"