> 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.
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.