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by jlokier 1941 days ago
Even HTTP/1.1 from 1999 keeps a persistent connection open, if the client and server agree.

What it doesn't do so well is lots of parallel requests and responses out of order. HTTP/2 is better for that.

Both versions will close the connection if it's been idle for a while, and automatically reconnect as needed.