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Is http a connected protocol?
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'Taint always so though.
Later HTTP standards permit persistent connections. This is almost entirely for effiency reasons though.
You need to do (nearly) all HTTP-related development assuming the connection will break after each transaction.
Nearly all of these articles refer to persistent HTTP as a "new" or "future" technology. The reason is that HTTP 1.1 or more or less taken for granted today.
Higher-level technologies like WebDAV (a sort of "web file system"
rely on persistent HTTP connections extensively.
Later HTTP standards permit persistent connections. This is almost entirely for effiency reasons though.
You need to do (nearly) all HTTP-related development assuming the connection will break after each transaction.
Nearly all of these articles refer to persistent HTTP as a "new" or "future" technology. The reason is that HTTP 1.1 or more or less taken for granted today.
Higher-level technologies like WebDAV (a sort of "web file system"
rely on persistent HTTP connections extensively.- Status
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