Re: UDP support for apache (Apache Users)

On 9/10/07, Chris 'Xenon' Hanson <xenon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yogsothoth GV wrote:
> Hello,
> Sorry previous email was sent before completion.
> Can I configure Apache to serve webpages using UDP as transport protocol ?

That's the silliest thing I've ever heard of.

Yes it is silly, only if you think all data that HTML serves requires TCP like transport semantics. Moreover, HTML specification doesn't specify what semantics to use for transport, right ?
However, content may impose those semantics.

| > Why would you want to?
Say, you are streaming video/audio over HTML like Flash, quicktime. This doesn't
necessarily require TCP like semantics because delay due to packet retransmission or HOL blocking is bad (when serving real time data). However, if you are using a transport protocol like
UDP you might experience small disturbance, which is better than stalled video/audio. This
is one reason that I can think on top of my head.

> I see some code in srclib/apr/network_io/unix to send/recv UDP sockets,
> which makes me think it might support. If so how would i configure ? I
> don't see documentation for this.
> I don't even know if these questions make sense, because to serve webpages
> server may force to do have reliability(so only supports TCP).

Just because there is support for UDP in APR doens't mean Apache uses it. APR is the
Apache Portable Runtime:
http://apr.apache.org/

It could be sued for a lot of things other than Apache itself.

I completely agree they might be using for totally different purpose. I just started diving into the
code and trying to make sense of it.

-GV

> thanks,
> -GV

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