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by xyzzyz 3929 days ago
* Yup, Each dropped packet pauses the entire connection until its retransmitted. *

Yeah, that's why the next step after SPDY/HTTP2 adoption is QUIC, which moves the web to UDP, and solves the head-of-line blocking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC

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which moves the web to UDP

That sounds like it'd just cause more congestion and dropped packets if not used carefully - and they'll eventually end up reinventing TCP on top of UDP...

or just create one virtual stream across multiple sockets