<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Mike Belshe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@belshe.com">mike@belshe.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">FYI: SCTP is effectively non-deployable on the internet today due to NAT.</div></div>
<div><br></div><div>+1 on finding ways to enable UDP. It's a key missing component to the web platform. </div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>But there is so much infrastructure that would have to be enabled to use UDP from a web app. How would proxies be handled? Even if specs were written and implementations available, how many years would it be before corporate proxies/firewalls supported WebSocket over UDP?<div>
<br></div><div>I am all for finding a way to get datagram communication from a web app, but I think it will take a long time and shouldn't hold up current WebSocket work.<br><div><br></div><div>-- <br>John A. Tamplin<br>
Software Engineer (GWT), Google<br>
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