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motoboi on Jan 24, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: BitTorrent vs. HTTP

He forgot to mention a very important aspect of bittorrent: the uTP (micro-TP) protocol.

uTP is a very nice bittorrent over UDP protocol implementing LEDBAT congestion control algorithm [1].

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEDBAT

JepZ on Jan 24, 2017 | [–]

Everything there looks very pro HTTP like... But hey, curl doesn't support bittorrent afaik. So why should haxx.se care ;-)

ryancox on Jan 24, 2017 | [–]

Interesting link in that Wikipedia article [1] to Apple's LEDBAT implementation used for downloading updates.

[1] https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1699.32.7/bsd/ne...

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