1.3 Overview

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The Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) Peer-Caching: Content Retrieval Protocol defines methods for a network client both to query multiple servers for data associated with a given URL and to download that data.

In Windows, the BITS component uses the BITS Peer-Caching: Content Retrieval Protocol to implement a distributed peer-to-peer cache of data items based on associated HTTP and HTTPS URLs as well as UNC paths<1>.