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Re: [core] HTTP over UDP

<L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk> Fri, 26 March 2010 16:25 UTC

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UDP doesn't have the necessary streaming semantics; as soon as the message
exceeds one UDP segment, more than UDP can provide is needed.

There has been discussion elsewhere of splitting HTTP from TCP
and running HTTP over other protocols, including UDP-based protocols
that implement the necessary streaming.

See
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wood-dtnrg-http-dtn-delivery
http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/dtn/http-dtn

L.


-----Original Message-----
From: core-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:core-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Mark Baker
Sent: 26 March 2010 16:07
To: core
Subject: [core] HTTP over UDP

Hello.  I've seen a handful of HTTP-like protocols over UDP proposed,
but I'm curious why I haven't seen any mention of doing plain old HTTP
over UDP, like this;

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-goland-http-udp-00

Has such an approach been considered and rejected?

Mark.

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