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From: | Ian Fung |
Subject: | Re: "cooperative" services (was Re: [DotGNU]Last call for 'This Year ...') |
Date: | Wed, 1 Jan 2003 15:42:24 -0500 |
"Normal" network services make themselves available by attaching to a port on the system and listening for all connections to that port. The distinction I make is that webservices share the network transport (be it port or Jabber connection) rely on an external coordinator (see*port, in this case) to understand a common protocol (HTTP on port 80, e.g.) and extract a "path" in order to figure out which service should receive the request.
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