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    bittorrent vs HTTP networking daniel.haxx.se
    pushcx avatar via pushcx 1 year ago | cached | 3 comments

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    lucian avatar lucian 1 year ago | link

    Bittorrent benefits a lot from UDP while HTTP is restricted by ancient TCP protocol.

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      jimdigriz avatar jimdigriz 1 year ago | link

      Technically UDP is 11 months older than TCP. :)

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        weakforce avatar weakforce 1 year ago | link

        What you may mean is, TCP is more specific than UDP.

        Quoting a colleague of mine:

        You can potentially implement TCP over UDP, but not the other way round.