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Comment by oautholaf

Most applications written using HTTP, in my experience, do not have deep dependencies on the longevity of the HTTP2 connection. In my experience, TCP connections for HTTP2 are typically terminated at your load balancer or similar. So reconnections here happen completely unseen by either the client application in the field or the servers where the business logic is.

For us -- and I think this is common -- the persistent WebSocket connection allowed a set of assumptions around the shared state of the client and server that would have to be re-negotiated when reconnecting. The fact that this renegotiation was non-trivial was a major driver in selecting WebSockets in the first place. With HTTP, regardless of HTTP2 or QUIC, your application protocol very much is set up to re-negotiate things on a per-request basis. And so the issues I list don't tend to affect HTTP-based applications.

parent oautholaf 4 years ago

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