> No, nagle was invented specifically for telnet. Without nagle, every
No it was general purpose. It fixes some extremely bad behaviour in TCP
with congestion well beyond the "telnet" behaviour.
> Things like mouse movements should not be sent over TCP at all. UDP
> makes a much better protocol for that kind of data since if a packet is
UDP is rarely appropriate because it has no congestion control. There are
more appropriate protocols but they are rarely implemented so TCP
generally gets used.
> lost, there is no need to retransmit the same data; instead you just get
> the next position update and don't care about where the mouse was during
> the dropped packet.
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