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by chubot 3602 days ago
Maybe this? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3117

There is a lot of "philosophy" about protocol design, which seems mostly sound. Although I wonder what happened to the protocol mentioned (BXXP or BEEP). I think HTTP was "good enough" as a universal application protocol?

This one also talks about HTTP being wildly successful beyond its original design parameters:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5218