Re: [colorforth] ether-ip-udp image

[Samuel Falvo <falvosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I've started on PPP several times, but haven't even written any code.
> Priorities again. TCP will be easy, as you can see from the UDP code. And
> UDP needs to assemble packets in order to handle web pages. It works fine
> for 1K blocks, which was the intent.

HTTP runs over TCP, not UDP.  Also, TCP is a very, very complex beast compared
to UDP.  Forth can help simplify it, but there is a basic level of complexity
inherent in TCP's normal operation.  I suspect TCP itself will probably consume
about 3 blocks of code, while UDP doesn't even cover a quarter of one block. 
There are lots of out-of-band communications in TCP designed to help ensure a
reliable connection, which the application never actually sees.

--
Samuel A. Falvo II


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