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Re:BitTorrent vs. HTTP by motoboi on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:37AM (#13470820)
He forgot to mention a very important aspect of bittorrent: the uTP (micro-TP) protocol.

uTP is a very nice bittorrent over UDP protocol implementing LEDBAT congestion control algorithm [1].

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEDBAT

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Re:BitTorrent vs. HTTP by JepZ on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:07PM (#13473192)
Everything there looks very pro HTTP like... But hey, curl doesn't support bittorrent afaik. So why should haxx.se care ;-)
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Re:BitTorrent vs. HTTP by ryancox on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:54PM (#13473701)
Interesting link in that Wikipedia article [1] to Apple's LEDBAT implementation used for downloading updates.

[1] https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1699.32.7/bsd/ne...

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