Why is it that when my wifi is interrupted and then comes back on, the webpage I’m on just stalls until being refreshed instead of coming back online?
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Most web sites work on a “request/response” basis, so you ask for a thing, they send it to you… Then they wait until you ask for something else…
When you’re on a site like Facebook, or Twitter and it’s updating feeds in real time, this is usually done with a thing called web hook/web socket, which is a long lasting request where they can respond multiple times as new content is available.
I’m both cases, the request is sent from your computer over a connection that originated at your browser, and if it is interrupted, needs to be re-established. Some browsers are smart and they detect the interruption and reload for you, but not all, and not in every case.
Of course the web site knows of they had a web hook and it disappeared, but they can’t re-establish the connection, because the way our routers work, they wouldn’t let the connection through without a matching request from your PC going out through the router
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