Editing General Inter-ORB Protocol (section)

{{Short description|Protocol by which object request brokers communicate in CORBA}}
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In [[distributed computing]], '''General Inter-ORB Protocol''' ('''GIOP''') is the message [[communications protocol|protocol]] by which [[object request broker]]s (ORBs) communicate in [[CORBA]]. Standards associated with the protocol are maintained by the [[Object Management Group]] (OMG). The current version of GIOP is 2.0.2. The GIOP architecture provides several concrete protocols, including:

# Internet InterORB Protocol<ref name=":0" /> (IIOP) &mdash; The Internet Inter-Orb Protocol is an implementation of the GIOP for use over the [[Internet]], and provides a mapping between GIOP messages and the [[Internet protocol suite|TCP/IP]] layer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.omg.org/library/iiop4.html |title=IIOP: OMG's Internet Inter-ORB Protocol: A Brief Description |accessdate=2014-08-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140628185045/http://www.omg.org/library/iiop4.html |archivedate=2014-06-28 }}</ref>
# SSL InterORB Protocol (SSLIOP) &mdash; SSLIOP is IIOP over [[Secure Sockets Layer|SSL]], providing [[encryption]] and [[authentication]].
# HyperText InterORB Protocol (HTIOP) &mdash; HTIOP is IIOP over [[HTTP]], providing transparent proxy bypassing.
# Zipped InterORB Protocol (ZIOP)  &mdash; A zipped version of GIOP that reduces the bandwidth usage