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- Network Working Group J. Postel
- Request for Comments: 865 ISI
- May 1983
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- Quote of the Day Protocol
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- This RFC specifies a standard for the ARPA Internet community. Hosts on
- the ARPA Internet that choose to implement a Quote of the Day Protocol
- are expected to adopt and implement this standard.
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- A useful debugging and measurement tool is a quote of the day service.
- A quote of the day service simply sends a short message without regard
- to the input.
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- TCP Based Character Generator Service
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- One quote of the day service is defined as a connection based
- application on TCP. A server listens for TCP connections on TCP port
- 17. Once a connection is established a short message is sent out the
- connection (and any data received is thrown away). The service
- closes the connection after sending the quote.
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- UDP Based Character Generator Service
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- Another quote of the day service is defined as a datagram based
- application on UDP. A server listens for UDP datagrams on UDP port
- 17. When a datagram is received, an answering datagram is sent
- containing a quote (the data in the received datagram is ignored).
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- Quote Syntax
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- There is no specific syntax for the quote. It is recommended that it
- be limited to the ASCII printing characters, space, carriage return,
- and line feed. The quote may be just one or up to several lines, but
- it should be less than 512 characters.
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