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I never understood why gRPC decided to use HTTP2 instead of WebSockets. WebSockets is a much simpler protocol and is the closest you can get to raw TCP sockets
by jondubois 8y ago
I never understood why gRPC decided to use HTTP2 instead of WebSockets. WebSockets is a much simpler protocol and is the closest you can get to raw TCP sockets in the browser.
HTTP was designed for file downloads and uploads while. WebSockets was designed for raw data.