HTTP Graceful Shutdown Explained

Hussein Nasser dives into why servers need to politely close connections—whether to dodge bad actors, free up resources, or wrap up in-flight requests—then shows you how it’s done in HTTP/1.1 (using the Connection: close header) and HTTP/2 (with the GOAWAY frame). Along the way he breaks down performance trade-offs, walks through Chromium’s socket pool logic, and timestamps every deep-dive so you can skip around.

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