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Implementer's Guide to WebSockets - Cookie Engineer's Web Log
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The Long Road to HTTP/3 ยท Scorpil
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| | Short history of HTTP protocol
| | lenholgate.com
WebSockets is a stream, not a message based protocol... - Rambling Comments - Len Holgate's blog
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| | [AI summary] The author critiques the design of the WebSockets protocol, arguing that despite its claim to be message-based, its fragmentation features effectively turn it into a stream-based protocol that forces manual buffering and complicates application layer design.
| | sookocheff.com
How Does HTTP/2 Work? | Kevin Sookocheff
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| | Note: To make this easier to read (and write), h1 may be used in place of HTTP/1, and h2 may used in place of HTTP/2. HTTP/1 has a long and storied history. Originally developed as a sixty page specification documented in RFC 1945, it was designed to handle text-based pages that leverage hypermedia to connect documents to each other. Typical web pages would kilobytes of data. For example, the first web page was a simple text file with web links to other text documents. Now, the web is made up of media-rich sites containing images, scripts, stylesheets, fonts, and more. The size of a typical web page is measured in megabytes rather than kilobytes, and the number of requests required to assemble a full page can be over one hundred. The reality of how web pages...
| | jomalo.com
Defaults | jomalo
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| Inspired by Hemispheric Views Duel of the Defaults - episode 097 and the many App Defaults entries collected by Robb. Here is my list for the Duel. Slowly moving back to defaults where I can to try and reduce subscription fatigue. Mail Client: Spark or Apple Mail Mail Server: Gmail Notes: Apple Notes or Drafts To-Do: Reminders iPhone Photo Shooting: iOS Camera or Obscura Photo Management: Google Photos Calendar: Fantastical Cloud file storage: iCloud RSS: Inoreader and Reeder Contacts: Contacts.