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Re: What do you see in a future curl?

From: Joost Huizinga <jhu_list_at_woodwing.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:39:07 +0200

Hi Daniel,

One item we have been looking into lately is overcoming the inefficiencies of the TCP protocol when it comes to long distance connections. Do you think that a libcurl running atop UDT (http://udt.sourceforge.net) is something that feasible at all?

Thanks for your thoughts,
- Joost

On 18 aug 2010, at 23:40, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> Hi friends,
>
> I've been wearing my philosophical a bit lately and thanks to this I coughed up a 1000 word blog entry on the topic of curl's future.
>
> I encourage you to skip over and read it, or perhaps to produce your own counter-post, and fling out some ideas or comments.
>
> Spoiler: there's no surprises hidden here:
>
> http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2010/08/18/what-do-you-see-in-a-future-curl/
>
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