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title: Connection Lifecycle
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# Architecture overview
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After Server has started listening to all sockets, [`Accept` ][accept] and [`Worker` ][worker] are two main loops responsible for processing incoming client connections.
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Once connection accepted Application level protocol processing happens in a protocol specific [`Dispatcher` ][dispatcher] loop spawned from [`Worker` ][worker].
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Please note, below diagrams are outlining happy-path scenarios only.
![](/img/diagrams/connection_overview.svg)
## Accept loop in more detail
![](/img/diagrams/connection_accept.svg)
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Most of code implementation resides in [`actix-server` ][server] crate for struct [`Accept` ][accept].
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## Worker loop in more detail
![](/img/diagrams/connection_worker.svg)
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Most of code implementation resides in [`actix-server` ][server] crate for struct [`Worker` ][worker].
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## Request loop roughly
![](/img/diagrams/connection_request.svg)
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Most of code implementation for request loop resides in [`actix-web` ][web] and [`actix-http` ][http] crates.
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[server]: https://crates.io/crates/actix-server
[web]: https://crates.io/crates/actix-web
[http]: https://crates.io/crates/actix-http
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[accept]: https://github.com/actix/actix-net/blob/master/actix-server/src/accept.rs
[worker]: https://github.com/actix/actix-net/blob/master/actix-server/src/worker.rs
[dispatcher]: https://github.com/actix/actix-web/blob/master/actix-http/src/h1/dispatcher.rs