> I'll admit, I'm one of those who cannot explain the diff if my 10 year
> son were to ask me :).
>
> Can one of the more enlightened please give concise definitions and
> explain the difference please? Please do not point me to the HTTP spec;
> that does not help. Nor to Roy's thesis ;-).
They're two different protocols of the stack that play entirely
different, non-overlapping roles. Transport is for moving bits around
the network. Transfer is for exchanging data between applications.
Transfer uses transport.
In OSI-speak (since somebody brought it up) IIOP, SOAP (as commonly
used), etc.. are layer 5/6 protocols, while transfer protocols are
layer 7. That's why I've always got a chuckle about those try to put
SOAP over HTTP 8-)
Mark.
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