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Network Working Group J. Postel Request for Comments: 865 ISI

                                                              May 1983

                     Quote of the Day Protocol

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.

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.

TCP Based Character Generator Service

 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.

UDP Based Character Generator Service

 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).

Quote Syntax

 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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