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Title: SCTP Authors: Preethi Natarajan; Janardhan R. Iyengar; Paul D. Amer; Randall Stewart Venue: International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) Year: 2006 Canonical: doi:10.1145/1135777.1135867 URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/1135777.1135867 Collector: openalex OA: false ABSTRACT We propose using the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), a recent IETF transport layer protocol, for reliable web transport. Although TCP has traditionally been used, we argue that SCTP better matches the needs of HTTP-based network applications. This position paper discusses SCTP features that address: (i) head-of-line blocking within a single TCP connection, (ii) vulnerability to network failures, and (iii) vulnerability to denial-of-service SYN attacks. We discuss our experience in modifying the Apache server and the Firefox browser to benefit from SCTP, and demonstrate our HTTP over SCTP design via simple experiments. We also discuss the benefits of using SCTP in other web domains through two example scenarios ? multiplexing user requests, and multiplexing resource access. Finally, we highlight several SCTP features that will be valuable to the design and implementation of current HTTP-based client-server applications.