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Would it be ideal for HTTP to be delivered over SCTP instead of TCP? If so, how the heck can the internet migrate over to SCTP?
by planckscnst 17y ago
Would it be ideal for HTTP to be delivered over SCTP instead of TCP? If so, how the heck can the internet migrate over to SCTP?
- tptacek 17y agoNo. SCTP is good for applications that were designed to use SCTP. Practically the entire TCP/IP infrastructure we run today is already optimized for the HTTP case.
- olefoo 17y agoIf nothing else, it's possible to tunnel tcp over sctp. But you could write a webserver that delivered HTTP messages over sctp directly. In fact that would make a good research project for someone. And it would likely be useful, if only for the sheer amount of stuff that uses HTTP as a transport. The thing is that as an asynchronous protocol HTTP doesn't get that much benefit from being delivered over sctp whereas protocols that depend on continuous session state like ssh or XMPP or VOIP streams would potentially gain much more.
- noss 17y agoI think it could be useful for a reverse proxy when talking with the backends. SCTP would be contained to your LAN traffic so adoption on the open internet & firewalls is a non-issue, and you get some benefits from avoiding head of line blocking. Possibly. Discuss below! :)
- noss 17y agoThis is an interesting read regarding HTTP over SCTP. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-natarajan-http-over-sctp-02 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-natarajan-http-over-sctp-02