While writing up the docs for the binary protocol, I read over the UDP protocol description in the text protocol document. Do I understand correctly that the UDP protocol support really is just an eight byte preamble ahead of each text protocol query, and chunking of responses?
Going through the four fields of the UDP header and comparing with the binary protocol header, I see: 0-1 Request ID -- Binary protocol's 32 bit Message ID field. 2-3 Sequence number -- Missing... 4-5 Total number of datagrams in this message -- Missing... 6-7 Reserved for future use; must be 0 -- Binary protocol has reserved space, too. Do we want to add 32 bits to the binary protocol for UDP sequencing? Has this been discussed before? If so, please point me in the direction of such a thread in the mailing list archives! Aaron
