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If 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
by olefoo 17y ago
If 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! :)