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Re:UDP vs TCP by jensvdh on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @10:32PM (#13275466)
HTTP is built on top of TCP.

Websockets are TCP connections.

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Re:UDP vs TCP by simplehuman on Thursday December 29, 2016 @10:23AM (#13277723)
So? TCP cannot be used directly in the browser by applications authors. It's an abstraction.
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