- From: Rohit Khare <rohit@uci.edu>
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 09:48:14 -0700
- To: Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>, IETF HTTP List <http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, jpierre@netscape.com
>Bala Krishnamurthy's PRO-COW compliance survey can tell you about >the smaller fraction that don't support any form of keep-alive. To be sure, the blame is also on Martin Arlitt's shoulders :-) http://fog.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-99.html >PRO-COW: Protocol Compliance on the Web > >Krishnamurthy, Balachander; Arlitt, Martin > >HPL-1999-99 >990921 >External > >Keyword(s): HTTP/1.1; protocol; World Wide Web; compliancy > >Abstract: With the recent (draft) standardization of the HTTP/1.1 >protocol on the Web, it is natural to ask what percentage of popular >Web sites speak HTTP/1.1 and how compliant are these so-called >HTTP/1.1 servers. We attempt to answer these questions through a >series of experiments based on the protocol standard. The tests are >run on a comprehensive list of popular Web sites to which a good >fraction of the Web traffic is directed. Our experiments were >conducted on a global extensible testing infrastructures that we >built to answer the above questions. The same infrastructure will be >used to answer questions like the percentage of the traffic flow >that is end-to-end HTTP/1.1 protocol compliancy and the subset of >features actually available to end users. > >23 Pages The bottom line is that two thirds or more of public Web servers already support persistent connections. Best, Rohit Khare
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