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Oh boy, let's reinvent all of the reliability, tooling and knowledge of TCP in an upper-layer protocol on top of UDP! That won't be complicated, error-prone, un
by throw-far-away 8y ago
Oh boy, let's reinvent all of the reliability, tooling and knowledge of TCP in an upper-layer protocol on top of UDP! That won't be complicated, error-prone, unreliable, break compatibility or reinventing-the-wheel at all! /sarcasm
- bigato 8y agoRead on protocol ossification to understand why this is done over UDP: https://lwn.net/Articles/745590/ https://lwn.net/Articles/745590/
- acjohnson55 8y agoAt the scale of deployment of HTTP, it may well be worth that risk and effort.
- zerd 8y agoGood discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18428949 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18428949