rete record types,
and nearly all application record types are stream record types.
But three application record types are discrete, and nothing
prevents defining a management record type that's a stream
in some later version of the protocol.<p>


<h4><a name = "S3.4">3.4 Name-Value Pairs</a></h4>

In many of their roles, FastCGI applications need to read and write
varying numbers of variable-length values.  So it is useful to adopt a
standard format for encoding a name-value pair.<p>

FastCGI  transmits a 