From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:21:50 -0700 Message-ID: From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=20cf300faf893d625604ac707522 Subject: Re: [9fans] 9ttp Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1bdf7866-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --20cf300faf893d625604ac707522 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:51 AM, hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> wrote: > HTTP is technically different and not easily comparable to 9p. HTTP is > not a good example of how to do things, but over high-latency links 9p > is much slower for getting files. > > HTTP tries to be stateless as well. Hence REST. 9p is a fairly stateful protocol. ... but then so is NFSv4, and 9p remains simpler. There's also pi-P documented somewhere that takes the ideas of 9p and makes them more applicable to the space where http is interesting, as well as others. Dave --20cf300faf893d625604ac707522 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:51 AM, hiro <23hiro@googlema= il.com> wrote:
HTTP is technically different and not easily comparable to 9p. HTTP is
not a good example of how to do things, but over high-latency links 9p
is much slower for getting files.

HTTP tries to be stateless as well. =A0Hence REST. =A09p= is a fairly stateful protocol.
... but then so is NFSv4, and 9p remain= s simpler.

There's also pi-P documented somewh= ere that takes the ideas of 9p and makes them more applicable to the space = where http is interesting, as well as others.

Dave
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