Necessary of http and other app protocol in rules header

[Meridoff via Snort-users <snort-users () lists snort org>]

Hello, What reason to use "http" procotol in rule header?
As I can see in code this App-level protocols are not processed at all -all
of them considered as TCP protocols.  Only protos that are considered in
rule processing are ip,tcp,udp and icmp.

Thanks

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