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What is HTTP?

tl;dr - The Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, is the predominant tool in the transferring of resources on the web, and a "must-know" for many application delivery concepts utilized on BIG...
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Oct 23, 2017

@Sukesh, the difference between TCP only and TCP+HTTP is how the server side is initiated. Without HTTP, the server side TCP handshake is initiated as soon as the handshake is completed on the client side. With HTTP, the BIG-IP waits for the first request from the client to initiate the TCP connection. Details are in K8082 on AskF5.