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0 pointsfunny_falcon3y ago0 comments

TCP can't multiplex. HTTP/2 runs over TCP and does multiplexing.

WebSocket can't multiplex. Nothing prevents gRPC over WebSocket implement multiplexing itself.

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Except it wouldn't work with a gRPC agnostic proxy. HTTP/2 can be split up by, say, nginx and requests can be handled separately. Any custom protocol probably won't have that level of support.

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0 pointsfunny_falcon3y ago0 comments

TCP can't multiplex. HTTP/2 runs over TCP and does multiplexing.

WebSocket can't multiplex. Nothing prevents gRPC over WebSocket implement multiplexing itself.

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jayd163y ago

Except it wouldn't work with a gRPC agnostic proxy. HTTP/2 can be split up by, say, nginx and requests can be handled separately. Any custom protocol probably won't have that level of support.

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