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Do browsers create new TCP connections for each HTTP requests?

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So I know that HTTP is basically just a text protocol over TCP, and that TCP is state / connection based. That means that the browser has to connect over TCP to a server before doing an HTTP request. Question then: do browsers typically create a new TCP connection for each HTTP request? Browsers co…

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In HTTP/0.9 (not used anymore), each request used a separate TCP connection, and the end of a response was signalled by closing the connection. In HTTP/1.0, separate connections are still the official default. However, an unofficial but very widely …

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