HTTP: A Closer Look

• HTTP is Unreliable

  • There is no error detection and correction for transmission errors
  • This helps makes HTTP simple, allowing browsers and webserver application programs to be simple and inexpensive
  • As we will see later, TCP at the transport layer is reliable, offering error detection and correction
  • TCP gives HTTP clean data, so there is no need for HTTP to do error checking

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