Alex Pankratov wrote:
Ivan Arce wrote:
Thanks David
That's is the best real world example that justifies and favors UDP over
TCP that I've read in years. Coming form the security world I'm used to
point out the million reasons why UDP is generally bad in any
security-sensitive application.
Can you list perhaps top 5 of these reasons ?
I'm not the original poster, but I'll take a shot at one of the reasons:
Programmers who use UDP almost always implement some subset of TCP's
features, such as retrying, ordering, fragmentation, congestion
avoidance, etc.. This code they write to implement these features is
likely to contain bugs, and is by definition network facing and handling
data sent by unknown agents.
Regards,
Zooko
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