| HTTPR
is an IBM introduced protocol for extending the HTTP protocol
with network reliability features. HTTPR leverages HTTP version
1.1. As such, all of the facilities of HTTP/1.1 (SSL, keep-alive,
communication through proxies and firewalls, and so on) are available.
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HTTPR is rarely used.
Its major limitation is that the reliability protocol is not decoupled
from the transport protocol. Thus, if a payload were being sent
across multiple nodes and multiple transport protocols were being
used in the transit, it would be necessary to use multiple reliability
protocols. Instead, the web services community is favoring transport
neutral reliability protocols such as WS-Reliability
See: Transport Binding |
