[[transport]] == Transport Plugins Transport plugins offer alternatives to HTTP. [float] === Core transport plugins The core transport plugins are: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-transport-wares[Servlet transport]:: Use the REST interface over servlets. [float] === Community contributed transport plugins The following community plugins appear to have been abandoned: * https://github.com/kzwang/elasticsearch-transport-redis[Redis transport plugin] (by Kevin Wang) * https://github.com/tlrx/transport-zeromq[ØMQ transport plugin] (by Tanguy Leroux)