On Mon, September 10, 2007 18:26, Yogsothoth GV wrote: > 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. Actually, the fact that nobody has implemented HTTP over UDP puts such a constraint on you. Just because the RFC allows for it does not mean that somebody has actually implemented it on both the server and client side. > | > 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 am no expert here, but there are probably much better ways to do this using more recent and more sophisticated protocols. When I was working for a company that shall not be named that was working on edge routing solutions, one of the big things was QOS and priority scheduling of "real-time" or streaming data. Unfortunately, my knowledge here is barely superficial as I never had to get deep into the mechanics of that to write my test software (which ran functional testing of various high-speed ATM optical network interfaces). -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Venimus, Saltavimus, Bibimus (et naribus canium capti sumus) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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