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HTTP Streaming (or Chunked vs Store & Forward)

The standard way of understanding the HTTP protocol is via the request reply pattern. Each HTTP transaction consists of a finitely bounded HTTP request and a finitely bounded HTTP response.

However it's also possible for both parts of an HTTP 1.1 transaction to stream their possibly infinitely bounded data. The advantages is that the sender can send data that is beyond the sender's memory limit, and the receiver can act on

	const http2 = require('http2');
	const fs = require('fs');
	const path = require('path');
	const zlib = require('zlib');
	const brotli = require('brotli'); // npm package

	const PORT = 3032;
	const BROTLI_QUALITY = 11; // slow, but we're caching so who cares
	const STATIC_DIRECTORY = path.resolve(__dirname, '../dist/');
	const cache = {};