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Under HTTP 1.0, connections should always be closed by the server after sending the response. [1]Since at least late 1995, [2] developers of popular products (browsers, web servers, etc.) using HTTP/1.0, started to add an unofficial extension (to the protocol) named "keep-alive" in order to allow the reuse of a connection for multiple requests/responses.
The Keep Alive signal can be used to trick intermediate hosts to not close the connection due to inactivity. It is also possible that one host is no longer listening (e.g. application or system crash). In this case, the connection is closed, but no FIN was ever sent. In this case, a KeepAlive packet can be used to interrogate a connection to ...
In HTTP/1.1 a keep-alive-mechanism was officially introduced so that a connection could be reused for more than one request/response. Such persistent connections reduce request latency perceptibly because the client does not need to re-negotiate the TCP 3-Way-Handshake connection after the first request has been
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Connection termination Detailed TCP close() sequence diagram The connection termination phase uses a four-way handshake, with each side of the connection terminating independently. When an endpoint wishes to stop its half of the connection, it transmits a FIN packet, which the other end acknowledges with an ACK.
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Robin Williams “would still be alive” if Christopher Reeve hadn’t died in 2004, Glenn Close has claimed.. Williams, who died by suicide in 2014, was close friends with Superman actor Reeve ...
Keepalive or keep-alive may also refer to: HTTP keep-alive, using a single TCP connection to send and receive multiple HTTP requests/responses; Keep-alive electrode, of a krytron; Keepalive, a sculpture in Germany by Aram Bartholl