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DICT
Communication protocol
Purpose
Allow clients access to remote dictionaries
Developer(s)
DICT Development Group
Introduction
January 1, 1997; 27 years ago (1997-01-01)
OSI layer
Application layer (7)
Port(s)
2628 (TCP)
RFC(s)
RFC 2229 A Dictionary Server Protocol
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DICT is a dictionary network protocol created by the DICT Development Group[1] in 1997, described by RFC 2229.[2] Its goal is to surpass the Webster protocol to allow clients to access a variety of dictionaries via a uniform interface.
In section 3.2 of the DICT protocol RFC, queries and definitions are sent in clear-text, meaning that there is no encryption. Nevertheless, according to section 3.1 of the RFC, various forms of authentication (sans encryption) are supported, including Kerberos version 4.[2]
The protocol consists of a few commands a server must recognize so a client can access the available data and lookup word definitions. DICT servers and clients use TCP port 2628 by default. Queries are captured in the following URL scheme:
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