[JDEV] connection between client/server using udp

[David Iodice]

Well, I for one would like to see Jabber generalized to the
point where someone COULD have a UDP connection from client
to server if they wanted to set it up that way.  I can
envision clients that just might not care or want to
retransmit lost packets. Especially ones that might be on
the server's LAN

Guess I'm in that 101 percentile (or is it -1 percentile?)
so I wanted to get my $0.02 in.

-----Original Message-----
From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On
Behalf Of
Jared Rhine
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 5:03 PM
To: jdev at jabber.org
Subject: Re: [JDEV] connection between client/server using
udp


[Citation date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:44:39 -0600 (CST)]

>>>>> kadokev == kadokev  <jdev at jabber.org>

    kadokev> In general, UDP is much more difficult to allow
through a
    kadokev> firewall securely, and is probably not an
appropriate
    kadokev> protocol for the client-to-server Jabber
communications.

At least for client-to-server communications which
long-lived
connections.  Just as Jabber.  Short, stateless
communications may be
appropriate for UDP (despite the valid firewall issues
expressed
above); it's just that Jabber isn't one of those
applications, and TCP
is probably far preferred over UDP for nearly 100% of Jabber
applications.

-- jared at wordzoo.com

"Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug."
        -- Dire Straits

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