websocket

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websocket is a protocol (RFC 6455) for full-duplex messaging over one TCP connection, opened by an HTTP Upgrade. Used for chat and live updates; proxies often drop idle ones.

Urls

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6455, https://websockets.spec.whatwg.org/

Tags

protocols, networking, http

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