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RE: Persistant connections and pipelining...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fish)
Tue Oct 24 15:22:43 2000
From: "Fish" <fish@infidels.org>
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:11:31 -0700
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Hi Nic! :)
> But "using persistent connections" is open to some interpretation (as
> always).
Of course. :)
> 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
You're absolutely correct and you raise a very good point, Nic.
Clients (e.g. browsers) can (i.e. may) -- and frequently do -- open more than
one persistent connection to a given server in order to service a single end
user "request", and this could well be what Marc was observing happening.
Good catch. :)
(See? I can be a nice guy when the situation warrants it. >:)
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