Why not use TCP?
"Richard Bibby" <richardjbibby@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:451c35ef@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hej,
>
> I have introduced a messaging system where my application can send me
> information about exceptions etc. When I say me I mean our web server in
> the office.
>
> I want to keep overheads low for the application, so currently I am using
> UDP on port 60. The sending of the message occurs in a seperate thread. It
> works!
>
> However I am not sure what protocol should I use. UDP or HTTP?
>
> What port should I use?
>
> However I have discovered that many networks do not let traffic out on UDP
> port 60 so the messages never arrive.
>
> So should I use HTTP on port 80?
>
> /Richard
