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Computer Networks interview questions
What happens when you open a website, TCP vs UDP, DNS and HTTP.
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- UDP is unreliable. How can an application still get reliable delivery over it?
The application adds what it needs on top: sequence numbers to order and detect gaps, acknowledgements and retransmission for missing data, and timers. QUIC, used by HTTP/3, does exactly this over UDP, along with congestion control and encryption.
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