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Chuck has UDP implemented. At least that is my understanding.

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:56:38PM -0400, Mark Slicker wrote:
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> 
> On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I know we're a long way from this.  We'd need TCP/IP and some support for HTTP.
> >  We'd probably need to support basic HTTP authentication, and may even want SSL
> > for serious use.  The PUT" and SAVE" words might require some sort of CGI
> > handler on the web server, or maybe we could use DAV or FrontPage extensions.
> > 
> > There would also be a need to make it easy to enter URL's using colorForth's
> > keypad.  Some of the common symbols aren't part of colorForth's character set
> > ('%' and '_', in particular), and the HTTP requests/responses use ASCII.
> > 
> > Anyway, it's just something to think about.  I'd be willing to help implement
> > some of this, but I'd need the basic network hardware and TCP/IP support from
> > someone else.
> > 
> 
> I'm still a bit of a novice at network protocals, however it might be
> better to start at a lower level. UDP looks good for sending blocks. I
> don't know if this applies to other protocals, but you could probably fit
> a block of source and the required information within an ethernet
> packet. The maximum size of a packet 1518 bytes.
> 
> You might address blocks the same way they are addressed currently, by
> linear address. The same editor that is used to browse blocks in
> memory could be used to browse blocks on a remote computer. A command
> similar to 'copy' could be used to transfer remote blocks to local
> memory.
> 
> Mark
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