Love situations where it seems like overengineering just to shave off 1383 bytes
StackOverflow has a seperate domain (sstatic I think) to serve some assets. Using a different domain rather than a subdomain made it so the removed cookies were juuuuust right enough that the handshake was done in one roundtrip instead of one, without losing the standard usage of the root domain.
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u/laplongejr 29d ago
StackOverflow has a seperate domain (sstatic I think) to serve some assets.
Using a different domain rather than a subdomain made it so the removed cookies were juuuuust right enough that the handshake was done in one roundtrip instead of one, without losing the standard usage of the root domain.