Unveiling the transport

Traditional application programming interfaces for transport protocols make a virtue of hiding most internal per-connection state. We argue that this informationhiding precludes many potentially useful application features and performance optimizations. We advocate a disciplined, portable, and secure interface that gives applications both "get" and "set" access to transport connection state.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2004
• Where: CCR
• Authors: Jeffrey C. Mogul, Lawrence S. Brakmo, David E. Lowell, Dinesh Subhraveti, Justin Moore
• Keywords: CCR 2004, Internal Per-connection State, Traditional Application Programming, Transport Protocols