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Why did HTTP end up the way it did?
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What caused new features to be introduced and how?
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Nobody could have predicted the path it took!
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Why is HTTP/1.1 not sufficient?
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Convergence of Application level Protocols
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and the emergence of the Big Hammer Protocol with the small heart -
the application framework
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Similar to what is happening to XML
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Overview of the W3C HTTP-NG Project