Why have people done the HTTP protocol based on TCP, and not based on UDP?
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TCP guarantees reliable transmission of data where UDP doesn’t. This means if they were to implement HTTP over UDP, they would have to add the reliable transmission mechanism (e.g. error checking) in the application layer, which is simply unnecessary. People prefer reliability over performance when it comes to web browsing.