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About
The HTTP
Upgrade
request
and response header
can be used to upgrade
an already-established client
/ server
connection
to a different protocol
(over the same transport protocol
); for example it can be used by a client to upgrade a connection from HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2, or an HTTP(S)
connection to a WebSocket connection1.
Anki
Links
References
MDN. “Upgrade header”. Available at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Forbidden_request_header . (Accessed: ). ↩︎