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I couldn't find this online so I thought I'd ask here.

What protocols can be used by websockets currently? (in chrome)

Also does chrome or any other browser plan to support RUDP protocol for websockets eventually?

Thanks in advance!

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WebSocket is the protocol. See the Internet-Draft. And it's not using UDP.

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    Technically Websockets would be part of the application layer, UDP the transport protocol. – tadman Nov 21 '10 at 00:55
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    @tadman: From the linked Draft: `The protocol consists of an initial handshake followed by basic message framing, layered over TCP.` – Jonas Nov 21 '10 at 01:18
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What browsers support HTML5 WebSocket API?

http://blog.chromium.org/2009/12/web-sockets-now-available-in-google.html

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-hixie-thewebsocketprotocol-55

Also of note, it appears someone created a Flash WebSockets proxy so you can extend your clientbase to anyone with Flash, as well as existing Chrome users.

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