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Re:HTTP/3 explained by shereadsthenews on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:33PM (#19088214)
Vanilla TCP does not do this. Sockets remain established forever in the absence of traffic.
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Re:HTTP/3 explained by xorcist on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:46PM (#19089659)
This is a core feature in TCP/IP. Only the endpoints actually involved in the connection care about what a "connection" really is. If they share a connection, it should be nobody else's business that they do.
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Re:HTTP/3 explained by mehrdadn on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @08:28AM (#19094876)
This is definitely not true in this world which is filled with NATs everywhere. The intermediate routers very much care and must care about what connections exist.
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