It's not that useless. A lot of applications these days are really using HTTP. And in HTTP/1 if you read from a response body from the socket (or write it), you

It's not that useless. A lot of applications these days are really using HTTP. And in HTTP/1 if you read from a response body from the socket (or write it), you are really already using the backpressure from TCP instead of having anything on top of it. With HTTP/2 and /3 that's different due to mulitplexing of multiple streams on the same socket - in that case there exists the additional flow control windows on top of TCP. These actually make those protocols rather hard to implement correctly.