A primary responsibility for any HTTP client is to efficiently manage network connections. Creating and establishing new connections require a fair amount of overhead and added latency. OkHttp will make every effort to reuse existing connections to avoid this overhead and added latency.

## Dispatch

For synchronous calls, you bring your own thread and are responsible for managing how many simultaneous requests you make. Too many simultaneous connections wastes resources; too few harms latency.

import okhttp3.internal.connection.RealConnectionPool
import okhttp3.internal.connection.RealRoutePlanner
import okhttp3.internal.connection.RouteDatabase

/**
 * Manages reuse of HTTP and HTTP/2 connections for reduced network latency. HTTP requests that
 * share the same [Address] may share a [Connection]. This class implements the policy
 * of which connections to keep open for future use.
 *

server: the port number, HTTPS settings, and preferred network protocols (like HTTP/2).

URLs that share the same address may also share the same underlying TCP socket connection. Sharing a connection has substantial performance benefits: lower latency, higher throughput (due to [TCP slow start](https://www.igvita.com/2011/10/20/faster-web-vs-tcp-slow-start/)) and conserved battery. OkHttp uses a [ConnectionPool](https://square.github.io/okhttp/4.x/okhttp/okhttp3/-connection-pool/) that automatically...

efficiently makes your stuff load faster and saves bandwidth.

OkHttp is an HTTP client that’s efficient by default:

 * HTTP/2 support allows all requests to the same host to share a socket.
 * Connection pooling reduces request latency (if HTTP/2 isn’t available).
 * Transparent GZIP shrinks download sizes.
 * Response caching avoids the network completely for repeat requests.