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		Izkata on Sept 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Do Routers Work, Really? Reads to me like the design of HTTP combined 5, 6, and 7 into one.

hinkley on Sept 11, 2020 [–]

Except now we have session and application protocols built on top of HTTP using additional software, which according to OSI would be additional layers. You can in a lot of cases use the standard to achieve this, but frequently enough we don’t.

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