====== Transports ======

As noted at [[Protocol]], PawSD can operate over any underlying transport that can provide a request-response model. Some of them are described here. Note that as the protocol itself **does not** provide any data integrity, it's highly recommended to use a transport that does, such as TLS (but not TCP as data could be maliciously tampered with in transit).


===== Stream-oriented =====

For any stream-oriented transport (such as TCP or TLS), a simple flow can be used:
  - client opens connection to a listening server
  - server accepts connection and waits to read the request
  - client sends the entire request as-is, then waits to read the response
  - server reads the request, sends the entire response as-is, then closes the connection from their end
  - client reads the response, then closes the connection