Stop Wasting Connections, Use HTTP Keep-Alive

Re:Stop Wasting Connections, Use HTTP Keep-Alive by spockz on Thursday March 07, 2019 @05:00PM (#19332970)

My understanding was that with http/1.1 all connections are kept alive until a close is emitted. How is this different?

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Re:Stop Wasting Connections, Use HTTP Keep-Alive by mgartner on Thursday March 07, 2019 @05:07PM (#19333041)

Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_persistent_connection#HTT... it sounds like your statement is correct.

But the fact that the underlying HTTP connection is kept-alive by default doesn't necessary mean that the client is going to actually re-use that connection for multiple HTTP requests. And, in fact, in Node.js the connection is not reused by default.

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Re:Stop Wasting Connections, Use HTTP Keep-Alive by robocat on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:20PM (#19334827)

Although the keep alive periods may vary:

https://fastmail.blog/2011/06/28/http-keep-alive-connection-...

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