doesn’t HTTP keep connections open?
It's up to the client to do that. I'm merely explaining why someone would see a latency improvement switching from HTTPS to websockets. If there's no latency improvement then yes, the client is keeping the connection alive between requests.
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It's up to the client to do that. I'm merely explaining why someone would see a latency improvement switching from HTTPS to websockets. If there's no latency improvement then yes, the client is keeping the connection alive between requests.