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Re:QUIC Is Not a TCP Replacement by AtNightWeCode on Monday September 26, 2022 @04:33PM (#32987985)
People in general don't understand what TCP is. Drives my insane. In practice, is it even possible to replace anything else than web traffic with QUIC today?
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Re:QUIC Is Not a TCP Replacement by skyde on Monday September 26, 2022 @04:51PM (#32988190)
yes Quic is not just HTTP. its a connection protocol
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Re:QUIC Is Not a TCP Replacement by AtNightWeCode on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @01:21AM (#32991780)
In theory it is a transport layer protocol like TCP but QUIC seems to mostly be used for specific application layer protocols.

And I have discussions probably every month with people arguing that "it is just TCP" and you have to explain to them that no, there is no way to do SFTP through a WAF or to run a database on that cloud service and so on.

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Re:QUIC Is Not a TCP Replacement by skyde on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @05:53PM (#33013753)
again quic is not just Http. you can proxy an sftp connexion through quic. By having a (tcp to quic) gateway at the source and a (quic to tcp) relay at the destination.

I have seen this implemented in production!

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