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  1. ajax - WebSockets protocol vs HTTP - Stack Overflow

    Feb 5, 2013 · There are many blogs and discussions about WebSocket and HTTP, and many developers and sites strongly advocate WebSockets, but I still can not understand why. For …

  2. What's the behavioral difference between HTTP Keep-Alive and …

    The committee initially started off as an HTTP committee but what the WebSocket people wanted was too different and they decided to split. The WebSocket protocol handshake does start with …

  3. Does HTTP/2 make websockets obsolete? - Stack Overflow

    Feb 18, 2015 · There is even an RFC for WebSocket over HTTP/2 which allows you to make multiple WebSocket connections over a single HTTP/2 TCP pipe. WS over HTTP/2 will be a …

  4. security - WS on HTTP vs WSS on HTTPS - Stack Overflow

    Feb 26, 2021 · 141 "wss works on both http and https" ??? This is a strange phrase. wss is secure only because it means "WebSocket protocol over https ". WebSocket protocol itself is …

  5. WebSockets vs. Server-Sent events/EventSource [closed]

    Mar 4, 2011 · 24 Websocket VS SSE Web Sockets - It is a protocol which provides a full-duplex communication channel over a single TCP connection. For instance a two-way communication …

  6. HTTP/2 vs web-sockets for bidirectional message streaming

    Jan 22, 2020 · 17 Besides for browsers, which do not expose HTTP/2 frames to Javascript, in what case would Websockets be a better choice than something like bidirectional streaming …

  7. Differences between TCP sockets and web sockets, one more time

    Jun 5, 2013 · The idea behind the WebSocket protocol consists of reusing the established TCP connection between a Client and Server. After the HTTP handshake the Client and Server …

  8. Why do WebSockets use ("ws" and "wss") instead of ("http" and …

    Aug 31, 2017 · The WebSocket client sends special headers (Connection: Upgrade, Upgrade: websocket) which lets you relatively easily decide whether this is a normal HTTP request …

  9. streaming - Use HTTP/2 instead of WebSocket - Stack Overflow

    Feb 12, 2025 · All in all, when trying to use HTTP/2 as WebSocket replacement, you would need to reinvent a framing format, to coalesce chunks into messages, and likely implement of …

  10. javascript - My Understanding of HTTP Polling, Long Polling, HTTP ...

    Sep 24, 2012 · HTTP streaming (re-use of server connection) HTTP long-poll: connection for every message HTTP poll: connection for every message + no data messages Mobile device …