HTTP Keep-Alive - CI/CD Glossary Definition
HTTP keep-alive (persistent connections) keeps a TCP connection open to serve several HTTP requests in sequence, avoiding a fresh TCP+TLS handshake per request - a major speedup for steps that make many calls to the same host.
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