The problem in tunnelling UDP in HTTP is that HTTP is built on TCP that is a reliable protocol ( automatically handles retransmission ).

So there is a clash: you are layering a unreliable protocol (where reliability is handled by the application) on a reliable one (TCP), so you obviously can't do all the thing that PCoIP does with UDP (ignoring missing packets without requesting, interpolate them...) because there is a FORCED retransmission.

The big advantage also of Web portal (like those used ICA / RDP ) is that is obiquitous (no added complexity and http is well estabislhed protocol) and also can work through http proxies (present in most enterprises).

So I really want to see what are vmware next moves from an implementation point, maybe

- losing some agility in pcoip traffic handling using TCP/http when used through web

- provide some "gateway" applet downloadable from web portal that tunnels in some way (but this will not work with proxies )

Agreed that Vmware was in a rush - anyway I would appreciate a clear roadmap published from vmware regarding View (what to expect).

Of course RDP/HTTP access is still available through Web Portal, anyway PCoIP isn't there.

And my doubt is in which way they will handle it in the future, due to the protocol being layered on UDP.

you can't use it through web portal ( HTTP based ).

Of course you can use it in a WAN if you can have a full IP/UDP connectivity from the client to the VM.