Hi Odi, > > 3. (esoteric) > > What other protocols are there used today in place of IP? Does Java > support them?
That's why I rated this as esoteric. You can implement any kind of protocol via JNI. The protocols I can think of are either not meant for HTTP, or can be mapped to the Socket API. The best I can come up with here are pipes, but why should anybody want to use HTTP via pipes? The mail about a native implementation of SSL sockets a few days ago made me think of this. On second thoughts, they were still providing java.net.Socket, they just couldn't create the SSL socket on top of an existing Java socket. Back in the old days, when working on my diploma thesis and before, I was programming on an operating system for a message passing parallel computer. We didn't have anything like TCP/IP there, but an OS specific communication infrastructure. Of course there was no Java either :-) But that's why I am sometimes thinking queer and non-TCP, like in this case. cheers, Roland --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
