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		koakuma-chan 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150 There is nothing that prevents you from using sendfile and HTTP/2 at the same time. You still dump the contents directly into the socket.

YorickPeterse 19 days ago [–]

Yes there is: HTTP/2's and HTTP/3's framing of messages is such that you can't reliably dump a file as-is onto an HTTP/2 connection, as it may exceed the maximum size allowed by a frame.

koakuma-chan 19 days ago | [–]

You can dump only the necessary part of the file. It does not have to be the whole file at once.

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