2229: A Dictionary Server Protocol.

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The Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) is a TCP transaction based query/response protocol that allows a client to access dictionary definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases.

Status INFORMATIONAL
Format TXT=59551 bytes
Authors B. Martin
Date October 1997
Keyphrases DICT Dictionary Server Protocol command

References

RFC640: Revised FTP reply codes.
RFC821: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
RFC822: STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT
RFC977: Network News Transfer Protocol.
RFC1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers.
RFC1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL).
RFC1760: The S/KEY One-Time Password System.
RFC1854: SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining.
RFC1939: Post Office Protocol - Version 3.
RFC1985: SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting.
RFC2044: UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646.
RFC2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies.
RFC2068: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1.
RFC2078: Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2.
RFC2222: Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL).