Graceful shutdown in HTTP
Update: 2025-10-17
Description
There are cases where the backend may need to close the connection to prevent unexpected situations, prevent bad actors or simply just free up resources. Closing a connection gracefully allows clients and backends to clean up and finish any pending requests.
In this episode of the backend engineering show I discuss graceful connections in both HTTP/1.1 via the connection header and HTTP/2 via the GOAWAY frame.
- 0:00 Intro
- 4:58 Why shutdown connection?
- 6:46 HTTP/1.1 Graceful shutdown
- 12:26 Cost of HTTP/2
- 17:40 HTTP/2 GoAWAY frame
- 23:40 Summary
Links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVKPrDrEwTI&t=1s
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40555364
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40501721
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