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== Transport Plugins

Transport plugins offer alternatives to HTTP.

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=== Core transport plugins

The core transport plugins are:

https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-transport-wares::[Servlet transport]::

Use the REST interface over servlets.

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=== 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)