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BEEP provides authentication and mulitplexes streams over a single TCP connection. It's like a version of HTTP/2 that never took off.
by wmf 3y ago
BEEP provides authentication and mulitplexes streams over a single TCP connection. It's like a version of HTTP/2 that never took off.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoIt was discussed on the hybrid-bidirectional (HyBi) mailing list, as a candidate for where after http to go. HTTP2 is a fine example. The HyBi mailing list seems to have culminated most noticeably in the creation of websockets. https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/hybi/about/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/hybi/about/ With webtransport over quic, I feel like we might finally be able to go where BEEP was leading us.