On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Mark Frohnmayer <mark.frohnma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:22 PM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Why is relying on TCP for reliable delivery inferior to asking >> applications to re-implement reliable transmission? >> > > In real-time networked applications the retransmission delay imposed > by TCP can cause unnecessary and noticeable hitches in the experience; > hence many real-time games use custom network stacks built atop UDP
Would it be appropriate to allow selection between reliable delivery involving delay and unreliable delivery with the shorter delay characteristics of UDP by allowing the user to select between the TCP-based asynchronous HTTP/HTTPS multipart/form-encoded POST of input type=file accept=audio as per http://www.w3.org/TR/device-upload and use UDP for synchronous or asynchronous device element I/O? Best regards, James Salsman
