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After curiously googling about potentially accepting UDP packets in web clients (JavaScript), I was surprised to come up with almost nothing except some articles about Google's experimental QUIC Protocol. Here's a recent post about it in the Chromium blog.

My questions are as follows:

  • Are there any current plugins/extensions/etc. that could allow browsers to accept UDP packets?
  • If so, how can that be used to accept packets from a NodeJS server using the dgram library?

With HTML5, WebGL, and web-based gaming starting to litter the internet, I thought more people would be talking about this.

I'm also curious about what the web development community as a whole thinks of QUIC, and if/when standardization of the protocol would potentially take place. Are there are any efforts besides QUIC to standardize UDP (or UDP-like) support for web clients?

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  • Browsers (web clients) are based on HTTP. This protocol does not support UDP. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/323351/does-http-use-udp for more details. – Richard Schneider Sep 11 '15 at 04:31
  • Typically,an application such as a browser requires the guaranteed, in-order delivery that TCP provides, and UDP does not. – Ron Maupin Sep 11 '15 at 04:55

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HTTP/3 with QUIC & UDP under the hood are finally available in browsers!

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