DevOps in Linux — HTTP Keep-Alive vs TCP Keepalive

Can you tell the difference between the two?

Tony
Dev Genius
Published in
4 min readJan 16, 2023

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What is the difference between HTTP Keep-Alive and TCP Keepalive? In fact, these two are completely different things, and the implementation levels are also different:

  • HTTP’s Keep-Alive is implemented in OSI Layer 7 (Application layer, user mode), and it is called HTTP long…

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