Re: SCTP support for Apache2
On 01 May 2019, at 13:46, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > There has already been an SCTP patch for Firefox as well as support for > Chrome. I believe HTTP over SCTP would be enabled quickly for all major > browsers if sufficient support from the server side was given. > My question is: Why do you not enable SCTP for Apache? It would be straight > forward, easy to do and very useful! Looks like your question was answered here: https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37202#c10 If you update the patch the work with trunk of httpd and APR, this is something that can definitely be looked at. Regards, Graham — smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
SCTP support for Apache2
I have seen that Preethi Natarajan had already developed a patch for SCTP support for Apache: https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37202 I do personally believe that SCTP would be the better choice over SPDY/QUIC since recent research has pointed out that current SPDY/QUIC implementations are not as efficient as old style TCP in terms of average utilized bandwidth and overhead. SCTP and QUIC both solve the Head-of-Line blocking problem for concurrent streams. This is not only important for video transmission over HTTP (DASH, HLS, HTML5 video) but can also speed up the general page load time. HTTP/1.1 via SCTP would be a much simpler and to my mind the preferable solution. SPDY/QUIC pushes all the complexity to the user space. However up to now kernel developers have done the better job in implementing transport level protocols. Besides this SCTP also supports multihoming and can thus resolve the 'parking lot problem' as QUIC can do (change of IP address when changing the connection from Wifi to LTE). There has already been an SCTP patch for Firefox as well as support for Chrome. I believe HTTP over SCTP would be enabled quickly for all major browsers if sufficient support from the server side was given. My question is: Why do you not enable SCTP for Apache? It would be straight forward, easy to do and very useful!
