[e2e] Is a non-TCP solution dead?

[John Kristoff]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:18:14 -0500 (CDT)
Saad Biaz <sbiaz at eng.auburn.edu> wrote:

> These non-TCP flows must first disguise themselves as TCP flows (put a
> 6 in protocol ID) and then use port 80.. This implies that the
> end-points must be aware of the micmac.. While possible, such micmac
> is certainly very limited.
> Or, are there commercial products using this?

I believe Real, QuickTime and Windows Media all do some form of HTTP
streaming or HTTP tunneling.  A far end server or whatever has to be
setup to allow this of course.  This has been available for quite some
time.  I had used this type of thing with Real as far back as 1998 if I
recall correctly.  I haven't kept up lately, but I imagine many a
filtered user has used it to listen to their favorite broadcast.

John