Messages in this thread | | | From | Majdi Abbas <> | Subject | Re: my broken TCP is faster on broken networks | Date | Mon, 14 Sep 1998 07:57:30 -0400 (EDT) |
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> It seems people from Netscape should read the RFC's... > > RFC 2068 (HTTP/1.1) explicitly says: > > Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of > simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A > single-user client SHOULD maintain AT MOST 2 connections with any > server or proxy. A proxy SHOULD use up to 2*N connections to another > server or proxy, where N is the number of simultaneously active > users. These guidelines are intended to improve HTTP response times > and avoid congestion of the Internet or other networks.
HTTP/1.1 didn't exist when that implementation was written.
Before you criticise anyone else, do keep some historical perspective.
Cheers,
--msa
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