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by Ekaros 726 days ago
For VOD can I just open connection and send single message and then stream will continue forever? And HTTP is message oriented protocol. I can't just send infinite length HTTP message. Which would be processed as it arrives or can I? Meaning can I upload something not that small like terabyte of video data over HTTP?
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Yes for everything. In HTTP1 it’s a chunked response, in H2+ it’s just a bunch of data frames. This is how low latency HLS video works.