1.4 Relationship to Other Protocols

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This protocol is built on top of the HTTP 1.1 protocol [RFC2616] and has direct dependency on it. Depending on the authentication mechanism needed to perform the upload to a URL, this protocol can have dependencies on authentication protocols.<1>

Protocol dependency over HTTP

Figure 2: Protocol dependency over HTTP

Protocol dependency over HTTP and TLS

Figure 3: Protocol dependency over HTTP and TLS