[Info-vax] DECserver/LAT across DECnet areas?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/24/2023 6:25 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 7/24/2023 1:22 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-07-24, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok, you people are confusing me.  (Not hard to do these days.)
>>>
>>> Is it being claimed that there are implementations of HTTP/HTTPS that 
>>> do not use
>>> sockets?
>>
>> No. The claim is that HTTPS in becoming the protocol "base layer"
>> that people write applications against instead of the underlying TCP/IP
>> layer.
> 
> Johnny wrote:
> 
> I know that there have even been implementations of IP over http...
> 
> ???

You can tunnel everything over HTTP.

---(X)--->program that pack in HTTP---(payload with 
X/HTTP/TCP/IP)--->program that unpack from HTTP---(X)--->

X could be IP packets.

I have not heard about it but I can not see why it can't be done.

Arne