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Prerequisites

The content of this post assumes knowlege of basic networking concepts such as the OSI model and how the HTTP protocol works to fetch and serve web content.

Introduction

Ever since Tim Burners-Lee created the World Wide Web, the Transport Control Protocol (TCP) has been the main and up until very recently, the most obvious option for transporting Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) web exchanges. Understandably, TCP was the transport protocol of choice given that the available options were limited between UDP and TCP, where UDP alone is a lightweight protocol that misses most of the features that the web desires.