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A comment on RFC 7540 – HTTP2. Parent comment

Re:RFC 7540 – HTTP2 by megaman821 on Friday May 15, 2015 @10:03AM (#9550606)
Out of all the options putting transport layer concerns in the HTTP protocol is my least favorite.

Google built a multiplexed stream transport over UDP called QUIC. HTTP over QUIC gives you most of what HTTP2 does.

Also there is a transport layer protocol called SCTP. Again, HTTP over SCTP gives you most of what HTTP2 does.

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Re:RFC 7540 – HTTP2 by MertsA on Friday May 15, 2015 @10:52AM (#9550993)
HTTP over SCTP give you more than what HTTP2 does. I just wish Google would have made SPDY only work over SCTP as a measure to push for widespread adoption. Imagine finally having a seamless connection for every application on mobile devices where it would switch from wifi to 4G without any serious latency or dropped connections.
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