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From: Ralph Spitzner <rasp@spitzner.org>
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Subject: Re: HTTP over both TCP and UDP
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 09:54:00 +0100
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Tauno Voipio wrote:
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Maybe I'm completely retarded, but HTTP _over_ UDP ?
Occurs to me the server would never be able to tell
when it's 'served' a page, unless some ACK's are
implemented, what in turn is just TCP.

Enlighten me someone on the the use of HTTP
over UDP.

[i.e. why not just send some <whatever> data
over UDP, don't care whether it's there or not
instead of dealing with headers like
Connection: keep-alive
which is impossible anyway et al.]




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