What is the difference between TCP keepalive and HTTP keep-alive?
Despite the similar names they solve different problems: TCP keepalive (SO_KEEPALIVE, default probes after ~2 hours) detects vanished peers and keeps NAT/firewall entries alive, while HTTP keep-alive is connection reuse to avoid handshake overhead.
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