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Re:Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding by legulere on Monday November 02, 2020 @03:18PM (#24972714)
Isn’t streaming done usually via UDP?
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Re:Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding by stingraycharles on Monday November 02, 2020 @03:35PM (#24972929)
It’s typically all HTTP requests; nowadays with HTTP3 we are back to using UDP, but apart from real-time video conferencing etc I don’t believe many streaming services use anything other than HTTP.
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Re:Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding by foobiekr on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:19PM (#24974630)
HTTP over TCP to cache nodes.

Fire up the developer tools / network view and go watch a Netflix video; try pausing, etc. It is incredibly straightforward.

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