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Jan 5, 2021 · Fundamentals
Understanding HTTP: Characteristics, Connection Management, and Performance Optimizations
This article explains the core characteristics of the HTTP protocol—including its flexibility, reliability, application‑layer nature, request‑response model, and statelessness—and then details short and long connection management, related header fields, head‑of‑line blocking, and practical performance‑enhancing techniques such as concurrent connections and domain sharding.
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