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Re: Message sending

Subject:Re: Message sending
Posted by:"Richard Bibby" (richardjbib..@hotmail.com)
Date:Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:34:37

can  you explain a bit more?
"Jamie Dale" <j.dale@turboz.net> skrev i meddelandet
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> 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

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