rfc-865

Quote of the Day Protocol

J. Postel

date1983-05 streamLegacy statusINTERNET STANDARD pages1 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc865 doi10.17487/RFC0865 errataview

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. The Quote of the Day service simply sends a short message without regard to the input.

also

std-23

Extracted elements (5)

design-rationale

The Quote of the Day service is described as a useful debugging and measurement tool, justifying its inclusion as a simple connection- or datagram-based service that sends a canned message.

normative-requirement §Quote Syntax RECOMMENDED

The quote should be limited to ASCII printing characters, space, carriage return, and line feed, and should be less than 512 characters.

protocol-element

The Quote of the Day Protocol provides a simple service that sends a short message without regard to input. It is defined for both TCP and UDP on port 17.

tcp, udp

wire-format §TCP Based Character Generator Service

TCP-based service: server listens on TCP port 17, sends a short quote upon connection establishment, discards any received data, then closes the connection.

tcp

wire-format §UDP Based Character Generator Service

UDP-based service: server listens on UDP port 17, responds to any received datagram with a datagram containing a quote, ignoring the content of the received datagram.

udp