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From: Paul Cager <paul.cager@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Socket problem: read & write to same socket
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On Mar 13, 11:33=A0pm, Martin Gregorie <mar...@address-in-sig.invalid>
wrote:
> I've been thinking over the servers protocols I know. The only one I can
> think of where the process accepting the connection speaks first is SMTP,
> where the server that accepts the connection announces who it is before
> seeing what its peer has to say. Arguably, this is a slightly different
> case since SMTP is a peer-to-peer protocol rather than a client-server
> one.

There's also SSH and (if I remember correctly) the "time" protocol.