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> You can implement something that can load a webpage from 99.9% of the world's web servers from a couple of RFCs in a day.

As an alternative perspective... while the RFCs are great, it's taken me weeks (maybe months now) to hack together a not-yet-functional TCP/IP stack. I've never dug below the application layer before. I'm still working through it. I cannot even say if the RFCs are sufficient, but I'll take your word.



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