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Keep-Alive

Keep-Alive

Keep-Alive is an HTTP header that allows a web server to use a single connection for multiple requests from a web browser. Servers running HTTP/1 often have keep-alive turned on to improve website performance. The keep-alive header is not used in ... Read More

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