Alaric B. Snell scripsit:
> Neither do
> HTTP, LDAP, ODBC, IMAP, POP3, finger, ftp, tftp, fsp, etc. interoperate; yet
> all of them are based around the concept of fetching something.
It's interesting, though, that HTTP 0.9, gopher, finger, and whois
*do* interoperate. They all use the protocol "Send one line of key,
get arbitrary text back".
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