Reply to post: Re: Shome mishtake shirley?

Internet be nimble, internet be QUIC, Cloudflare shows off new networking shtick

Michael Wojcik Silver badge

Re: Shome mishtake shirley?

It will also mean saying goodbye to the protocol that effectively made the internet possible: TCP.

TCP will continue to be a fallback, not least because there is no support for UDP tunnelling under a HTTP proxy

And because many HTTP clients and servers will never implement QUIC, and legacy software tends to stick around far longer than some people think.

And because the Web is not the Internet. I don't foresee QUIC ever being very popular outside the HTTP domain.

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