On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
>
> Real Audio uses a different protocol that HTTP, so it won't be tracked in the
> Apache logs (other than the initial request for the .ram file). In fact, I think it
> uses UDP rather than TCP for streaming content (because UDP packets are in an
> expected order).
> 

And presumably because they don't want to back off just because the network
is getting congested, and share the available bandwidth among the competing
users, as TCP would.

-- 
Stephen Turner               http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
  Statistical Laboratory, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, England
"8th March 2000. National No Smoking Day. Ash Wednesday." (On a calendar)

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