RFC 865

Quote of the Day Protocol ✨

okay bestie, this is RFC 865 🎀 from the Network Working Group, written by J. Postel at ISI in May 1983 💖. it's a standard for the ARPA Internet community, so hosts that want to do the Quote of the Day Protocol are expected to adopt and implement it 🫶. the doc doesn't say anything about obsoleting or updating other RFCs, so there's nothing to report there 🙈

A quote of the day service is a super useful debugging and measurement tool 🔥. it just sends a short message back and doesn't care what you sent it 💅. no cap, it's giving minimalist energy.

TCP Based Character Generator Service 🦋

one quote of the day service is a connection based app running on TCP 🌸. the server listens for TCP connections on TCP port 17. once a connection is set up, a short message gets sent out over it, and any data the server receives is thrown away 🗑️. then the service closes the connection after sending the quote 💜. bye bye 👋

UDP Based Character Generator Service 🧚

another quote of the day service is a datagram based app running on UDP 🌈. the server listens for UDP datagrams on UDP port 17. when a datagram comes in, it sends back an answering datagram with a quote inside 💌. the data in the received datagram gets ignored, so it doesn't matter what you send 🙃

Quote Syntax 🍓

there's no specific syntax for the quote, so it's very chill ✨. it is recommended that the quote be limited to the ASCII printing characters, space, carriage return, and line feed 💅. the quote may be just one line or go up to several lines 🌸, but it should be less than 512 characters 🫶. so keep it short and sweet, bestie 🎀