Prooposed Protocol for the Registrar's Student Access System

S. Thorne
6/4/91

	The protocol for the Registrar's system is a simple request-response 
text based protocol. The server is meant to run out of inetd, and a tcp stream
connection is established for the duration of the client's session.
	Since the information being passed is all text, we kept the protocol as
simple as possible. When a connection is made the first thing to happen is the
server sends over a banner, which contains the server/protocol version. After 
this the client sends requests to the server which are lines of text followed 
by (\n or \r or \r\n). The form of the request is request type (a single char)
followed by ":" delimited paramaters. 
	The server responses is terminated with "\n.\r\n". The first line of 
the server's response is "header" information. This header contains an error
message, return record type, number of records, and number of bytes. These 
header fields are also ":" delimited. 
	The details of the individual queries can be found in the file 
protocol.h which can be found by attaching net_dev, and changing directories
to /mit/net_dev/registrar.