Re: Adding SCTP support

I'm very interested in this, and would be willing to help with the
spec work side of things. It's also been discussed on the HTTP mailing
list <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/>.

Cheers,

On 01/06/2008, at 12:50 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've spoken to some SCTP related people about this before.
> The trouble is:
>
> * NOone's fleshed out how HTTP over SCTP should look;
> * Noone's fleshed out how servers should choose HTTP over TCP vs SCTP.
>
> They're the much more pressing questions.
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
> On Sat, May 31, 2008, Pranav Desai wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> What would you suggest should be the way to include SCTP support in
>> Squid 3.0 ?
>>
>> My assumption here is that SCTP would be useful for clients (which
>> support SCTP) connecting using slow/lossy wireless type networks. My
>> goal is to experiment and compare the performance against TCP for
>> wireless networks.
>>
>> So, I started with that and was easily able to add a config option
>> for
>> client-side and change the corresponding function
>> clientHttpConnectionsOpen() to set appropriate protocol type and it
>> worked just fine. But that would make it an SCTP only proxy.
>>
>> We could also open up another listening port for SCTP, so that we can
>> have both SCTP and TCP simultaneously, where the origin server side
>> will always be TCP.
>>
>> But I feel that I am missing something here. So, I would really
>> appreciate any suggestions or comments you may have.
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
>> -- Pranav
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