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Re: HTTP over both TCP and UDP

From	Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.networking
Subject	Re: HTTP over both TCP and UDP
Date	2015-02-23 11:43 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<mcesmd$gn1$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 23.2.15 10:54, Ralph Spitzner wrote:
> Tauno Voipio wrote:
> [lots of txt]
>>
>
> 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.]


That was not the only thing wrong in the message.
The post did not say anything about HTTP over UDP.

It seems to me that the OP is in all over his head
about the IP protocol stack - there is a strong
homework scent in the whole thing.

-- 

-TV

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Re: HTTP over both TCP and UDP zawarzh@gmail.com - 2015-02-21 10:16 -0800
  Re: HTTP over both TCP and UDP Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2015-02-21 21:16 +0200
    Re: HTTP over both TCP and UDP Ralph Spitzner <rasp@spitzner.org> - 2015-02-23 09:54 +0100
      Re: HTTP over both TCP and UDP Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2015-02-23 11:43 +0200

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