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Yes there are real problems with HTTP. There is a lot of overhead in building a connection and maintaining. It's designed to be a transient, request/response or
by Codhisattva 13y ago
Yes there are real problems with HTTP. There is a lot of overhead in building a connection and maintaining. It's designed to be a transient, request/response oriented protocol. Things like XmlHttpResponse are a hack and misuse.
I'm not just being pedantic about it either. Just compare server performance of RPC over Websocket to RPC over HTTP at scale.