why it is very hard to cancel an HTTP request
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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GRPC
Cancellation is difficult to implement on the back end of a proxy. It's not scalable because that connection at layer four, which carries so many streams, so many requests,. If it's funnel through the same socket, then it's not really scalable. That's why people implement GRPC at layer seven and they can multiplex streams bidirectional streams in this way.
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