phone debugging

[James Knott]

Russell Reiter wrote:
> I got disracted in what I was attempting to figure out and sent the
> last email from the droid. It appears that gmail from the web app
> obeys the plain text request entirely, the droid does not.
>
> I  wonder if this is in part due to the ARM internals and VLIW
> capabilities of the processor. With bandwith, storage and other
> factors taken into account it makes sense that a small device such as
> this one could choose to encode text as multi part mime.
>
> Would this make it easier to packet switch on 3G networks?
>
>    

Applications and transport are 2 completely different areas of the 
protocol stack.  One should have absolutely no effect on the other.  
While TCP/IP doesn't match it exactly, read up on the OSI stack, to 
understand how the various layers provide transparent separation for 
this sort of thing.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/OSI_model

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