[8025] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: connection fight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wmperry@spry.com)
Sat Apr 22 19:31:01 1995
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 19:24:43 +0500
Errors-To: procmaster@www19.w3.org
Reply-To: wmperry@spry.com
From: wmperry@spry.com
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
Christopher Caserio writes:
> Also, Netscape (and other browsers) open and close the ftp
> connection for each transfer, whereas the standard ftp clients
> maintain the control connection for the entire session. This
> means that your browser must *fight* the traffic for each directory
> listing, file transfer, etc.
I don't know about the code in netscape, but the stock libwww from CERN
has _always_ cached the control connection. Emacs-w3 uses ange-ftp or
efs to do the ftp work, and they also cache the connection.
-Bill P.
