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TBD

you ask for sugar and the server starts a session where he sends a numbered sugar sachets (TCP frames) and you confirm the delivery of each sachet (based on checksums) and as @gldraphael said the sugar arrives after the handshake

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Ben Halpern

And if I understand correctly, the barista will give give me one packet on the first trip, then two, then four, etc. and in data terms, each packet is about 14k in size.