RAW HTTP
HTTP is a stateless protocol based on TCP/IP.
What is RAW HTTP?

Overview
The REST library communicates with the Ably service using the HTTP protocol for all operations and is effectively stateless. A stateless library is often preferred server-side as it allows communication to consist of independent pairs of request and response without the need to retain session information or any in-flight request state. Whilst Ably’s REST libraries cannot subscribe to data published in real time, they can publish and retrieve realtime data.