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Re: [core] HTTP over UDP

Robert Cragie <robert.cragie@gridmerge.com> Fri, 26 March 2010 16:17 UTC

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It would seem reasonable to do this but HTTP is quite verbose so the aim 
is to compress the verbose text-based HTTP along with the content, which 
means that a request/response is more likely to fit into a UDP datagram, 
which is the aim for constrained environments.

Robert

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On 26/03/2010 9:07 AM, Mark Baker wrote:
> 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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