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RE: Persistant connections and pipelining...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nic Ferrier)
Tue Oct 24 13:38:43 2000
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:32:47 +0100
From: "Nic Ferrier" <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>
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>>> "Fish" <fish@infidels.org> 24-Oct-00 5:01:17 PM >>>
>> I'm under the assumption that because the hyperlinks
>> reference the same address/port, a single connection should
>> be used to retrieve the 'documents'.
>If the server that's servicing your requests is an HTTP/1.1
>compliant server, it should -- if it *can*.
But "using persistent connections" is open to some interpretation (as
always).
RFC2616 section 8.1.4 suggests that a client might want to open more
than one connection to a server but also suggests that clients limit
that to 2 connections per server.
However... I've seen some versions on IE 5.0 do up to 5 connections
per server.
2 connections per server (for a non proxy client) would seem to be
about right - it enables documents and referenced content to be
downloaded fairly simultaneously whilst maximizing connection re-use.
Latest versions of IE 5.0 (that I've seen anyway) seem to stick to
the 2 connections per server rule of thumb.
Nic Ferrier
