HTTP is conventionally considered a stateless protocol. The browser establishes connection with the server during a request,and after the browser gets the response, the HTTP connection will be closed.
Also, HTTP is a application layer protocol. When the browser sends a request to the server or receives a response from the server, data is passed down to the next layer, then encapsulated into a transport layer protocol.
Here is the question.
Is the TCP connection between the browser and the server closed immediately after a request/response in HTTP? Or it will keep connection for a while?
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1HTTP Keep-Alive was added to HTTP/1.0 already, see duplicate for an explanation. – CodeCaster Aug 03 '16 at 09:07
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1This [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20592698/keep-alive-header-clarification) is quite helpful! – Yu Gu Aug 03 '16 at 09:15