Re: Magic numbers

To me, DIME *feels* more like a file type than a network protocol
because it simply encapsulates raw data, has few semantics, and is
returned as a Content-Type in HTTP rather than a transport encoding...

Rich Salz wrote:
> Magic numbers identify file types.  You have a file lying around on-disk,
> you know what to do with it.  What's the benefit to a network protocol?
> Rather than anologies to Java jar files, what about ip/tcp headers?
>         /r$



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