
why it is very hard to cancel an HTTP request
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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Is HTTP Cancellation Really Possible?
HTTP cancellation is possible, but it's very hard to implement and implement correctly in a real production environment. Even though if we terminate the connection, we have, we cannot guarantee that the actual final back end will listen to the event that the casket has been closed and then terminate that request on the back end. Very, very difficult. Let me know if you had any other thoughts. What did I miss and tell me more about how go-leng and I have the book? The camera is standing behind a book called network programming with go beautiful, beautiful book that explains that I'm reading and reading more details about that. But as I read, I have questions and I answer them
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