With a maximum header size of 14 bytes makes more efficient for bidirectional use cases (eg chatting, gaming) compared to using long polling which has the overhead of HTTP headers.
Maximum message size can be up to 2^63 bytes
Of course being on top of TCP we suffer the head of line blocking.
Hussein Nasser
The Anatomy of a WebSockets frame
With a maximum header size of 14 bytes makes more efficient for bidirectional use cases (eg chatting, gaming) compared to using long polling which has the overhead of HTTP headers.
Maximum message size can be up to 2^63 bytes
Of course being on top of TCP we suffer the head of line blocking.
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