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apitman 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser

Why throttle the browser rather than just having it block until more data arrives?

tripflag 3 months ago [–]

if you stop sending data entirely, browsers tend to drop and reopen the connection after a few minutes, assuming something got stuck along the way. Throttling seems to prevent that nicely.

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