Re: [GNUnet-developers] Questions about GNUnet

[N. Durner]

> | In some point of a paper still referring to GNet it was saying that 
> GNUnet
> | should in future abandon UDP [...] Is there any effort in this 
> direction by GNUnet 0.6.5
> | or in
> | the future GNUnet 0.7.0?

AFAIK, no.

> It is my understanding that GNUnet supports UDP (a feature I personally
> find worthwile) but does not rely upon it. For example, if a firewall
> were to block all UDP, GNUnet could still function fine using its TCP
> transport module.

You are right.
And you can enable/disable transports yourself in gnunet.conf.

> I don't know whether or not HTTP or FTP transport modules are in the 
> works.

A HTTP transport is there, but it doesn't work with proxies, see Mantis #765


   Nils