A month on, network improvements come to .NET 7

A month after unveiling the production release of .NET 7, Microsoft has introduced several networking enhancements that touch on issues including security, the HTTP transport layer, and APIs. Software engineers in Microsoft's .NET unit this month outlined what they said were "the most interesting and impactful changes in the …

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What the heck?

"With .NET 7, a failed connection attempt won't derail unrelated attempts at making other links."

So all the way up to today, any failed HTTP connection causes the entire application network stack to fall over? How broken is that?

[Steve Channell]

QUIC connections

That comment relates to QUIC HTTP/3 connections where each call is multiplexed over a single connection and sent via UDP datagrams to a client (including Chromium). It doesn't relate to HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.1 where recovery is simpler and worked well for decades