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I don't think you got it straight. > Yet another attempt to emulate a full OS-level network stack on top of HTTP The proposed protocol does not work "on top o
by scribu 10y ago
I don't think you got it straight.
> Yet another attempt to emulate a full OS-level network stack on top of HTTP
The proposed protocol does not work "on top of" HTTP. From the article:
> The basic idea is that the web backend performs authentication and when a client wants to play, it makes a REST call to obtain a connect token which is passed to the dedicated server as part of the connection handshake over UDP.
So both the handshake and the actual data transfer happen directly over UDP.
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> Giving random web-pages access to RAW OS-level networking, and not just sockets, from untrusted internet JS.
The "Why not just let people send UDP?" section in the article actually explains why that would not be a good idea.