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lucian1900 on March 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go HTTP2 demo

That's because it's the default in HTTP 1.1. The server would need to send "Connection: close" to disable keep-alive.

bsdetector on March 6, 2015 [–]

Apparently "connection: keep-alive" is needed to enable pipelining in the browsers:

http://www.guypo.com/http-pipelining-big-in-mobile/

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