RTCIceCandidate.protocol

The RTCIceCandidate interface's read-only protocol property is a string which indicates whether the candidate uses UDP or TCP as its transport protocol. protocol is null by default if not specified properly in the SDP, but this is an error condition and will result in a thrown exception when you call RTCPeerConnection.addIceCandidate().

The protocol property's value is set when the RTCIceCandidate() constructor is used. The value is automatically extracted from the candidate a-line, if it's formatted properly.

Syntax

var protocol = RTCIceCandidate.protocol;

Value

A DOMString which indicates what network protocol the candidate uses, UDP or TCP. These values are defined by the enumerated type RTCIceProtocol:

tcp

The candidate, if selected, would use TCP as the transport protocol for its data. The tcpType property provides additional information about the kind of TCP candidate represented by the object.

udp

The candidate will use the UDP transport protocol for its data. This is the preferred protocol for media interactions because of its better performance profile.

Usage notes

Here's an example candidate a-line from an ICE transaction:

a=candidate:4234997325 1 udp 2043278322 192.168.0.56 44323 typ host

The third field, "udp", is the protocol type, indicating that the candidate would use the UDP transport protocol.

Example

This code snippet examines the value of protocol to decide if it should look at the value of tcpType to see if it's a simultaneous-open (S-O) candidate.

if (candidate.protocol == "tcp") {
  if (candidate.tcpType == "so") {
    adjustForSimultaneousOpen(candidate);
}

Specifications

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