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Well, there's QUIC, which serves HTTP over UDP. But I see your point, and you're correct. TCP and UDP have different advantages (at least for now).
by mholt 12y ago
Well, there's QUIC, which serves HTTP over UDP. But I see your point, and you're correct. TCP and UDP have different advantages (at least for now).
- dtech 12y agoHowever, QUIC provides a lot of the features TCP has but very fine-tuned for HTTP. This is fine, HTTP is probably the largest layer 7 protocol on the internet, but if you were to design a layer 7 protocol that needed a lot of the features that TCP provides it would be quite dump to reimplement them yourself on top of UDP.