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Even reliable streams benefit from webtransport. Right now (as I understand it) WebSocket is HTTP1.1 only - which means if you’re using HTTP2/HTTP3 and want to
by josephg 4y ago
Even reliable streams benefit from webtransport.
Right now (as I understand it) WebSocket is HTTP1.1 only - which means if you’re using HTTP2/HTTP3 and want to use websockets, the websocket connection will create a separate TCP connection just for WS. This is slow to start - both due to needing another handshake and TLS dance. And you can run into a bunch of problems due to per-domain browser connection limits.
Reliable streams over webtransport will solve these problems. They’ll be faster, more reliable and a better fit for HTTP/3.