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Because SPDY "looks like" SSL at layer 5, while SCTP does not: common deployments of Squid (one of the most popular HTTP proxies on earth) will pass through SPDY if they allow SSL, without any config changes.

On the other hand, SCTP has much stronger interactions with basically any deployed firewall/proxy anywhere, lacks widely used implementation for popular operating systems (Windows!), etc. For many networks, deployment of SCTP might mean replacing millions of $ networking hardware.



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