SCTP support for Apache2

[Elmar Stellnberger <es...@elstel.org>]

   I have seen that Preethi Natarajan had already developed a patch for 
SCTP support for Apache:
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37202

   I do personally believe that SCTP would be the better choice over 
SPDY/QUIC since recent research has pointed out that current SPDY/QUIC 
implementations are not as efficient as old style TCP in terms of 
average utilized bandwidth and overhead. SCTP and QUIC both solve the 
Head-of-Line blocking problem for concurrent streams. This is not only 
important for video transmission over HTTP (DASH, HLS, HTML5 video) but 
can also speed up the general page load time. HTTP/1.1 via SCTP would be 
a much simpler and to my mind the preferable solution. SPDY/QUIC pushes 
all the complexity to the user space. However up to now kernel 
developers have done the better job in implementing transport level 
protocols. Besides this SCTP also supports multihoming and can thus 
resolve the 'parking lot problem' as QUIC can do (change of IP address 
when changing the connection from Wifi to LTE).
   There has already been an SCTP patch for Firefox as well as support 
for Chrome. I believe HTTP over SCTP would be enabled quickly for all 
major browsers if sufficient support from the server side was given.
   My question is: Why do you not enable SCTP for Apache? It would be 
straight forward, easy to do and very useful!

Re: SCTP support for Apache2

[Graham Leggett <mi...@sharp.fm>]

On 01 May 2019, at 13:46, Elmar Stellnberger <es...@elstel.org> wrote:

>  There has already been an SCTP patch for Firefox as well as support for Chrome. I believe HTTP over SCTP would be enabled quickly for all major browsers if sufficient support from the server side was given.
>  My question is: Why do you not enable SCTP for Apache? It would be straight forward, easy to do and very useful!

Looks like your question was answered here:

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37202#c10

If you update the patch the work with trunk of httpd and APR, this is something that can definitely be looked at.

Regards,
Graham
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