[nyc_pizzadev]

High quality VOD (ie streaming a 4K movie). HTTP block file systems, each block needs to be streamed reliably to fulfill the read() call plus read ahead.

[Ekaros]

For VOD can I just open connection and send single message and then stream will continue forever? And HTTP is message oriented protocol. I can't just send infinite length HTTP message. Which would be processed as it arrives or can I? Meaning can I upload something not that small like terabyte of video data over HTTP?

[nyc_pizzadev]

Yes for everything. In HTTP1 it’s a chunked response, in H2+ it’s just a bunch of data frames. This is how low latency HLS video works.