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TCP Connections - What's the Three-Way Handshake?
TCP has keep-alives, which I believe are off by default in most of the operating systems. But what essentially would happen, let's say I send a request to Google and it's taking Google a long time to respond. Maybe it's having to crunch a bunch of numbers and stuff and then send the response back to me. My side may send a keep-alive request, which is a special request to Google's network layer,. It doesn't go to the application. It just goes to the TCP layer at Google. Once we're done exchanging data, then usually there's a graceful termination where either side can initiate this. So when we talk about having these communications that are