Re: [boost] Re: Sockets - what's the latest?

From: shelarcy (shelarcy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-03 20:56:48

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:17:45 +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra <terpstra_at_ito.tu- 
darmstadt.de> wrote:

How about BEEP ?

It's not only P2P protocol, but also refactoring of some protocols.

#beepcore.org
http://www.beepcore.org/

#XML Watch: Bird's-eye BEEP

Part 1 of an introduction to the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol 
standard of the IETF
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-beep/

Part 2 of an introduction to the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol 
standard
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-beep2.html

#Beep BEEP!
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/10/16/ends.html

> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:11:59PM -0500, Jason House wrote:
>> Once I heard there was a generic socket library in development, I 
>> thought I'd add
>> a quick feature request.   I would like to see the ability to have 
>> multiple
>> streams through the same socket.
>>
>> This boils down to providing two distinct benefits.
>> 1:  Programs can easily perform complex communications over a single 
>> port.
>> 2: Without multiple streams, problems can occur when there are multiple 
>> clients
>> behind a proxy connecting to a host outside of the proxy.  If the client 
>> only
>> forms a single connection to the host, there won't be a problem because 
>> the random
>> source port will differentiate each stream.   So, when multiple clients 
>> connect to
>> a host from behind a proxy, the host can only differentiate each stream 
>> by the
>> random source port.  So, when the clients form a second connection to 
>> the host,
>> each stream gets differentiated from each other, but there is no mapping 
>> of random
>> source port ot the distinct client.
>
> What you are asking for here is:
> 	http://chorus.sourceforge.net/
> ... in my slightly biased opinion. ;-)
>
> This gives you a stackable transport framework which includes (among 
> other
> things) a multiplexed channel.
>
> This project is still really new, but is shaping up nicely.
>
> However, it has no relation to boost and is primarily targetted at 
> building
> distributed hash tables (p2p apps) that can go through any data channel.

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