- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 12:36:23 PDT
- To: DLEVINE@ssf4.jsc.nasa.gov
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> SHOULD this be on www-talk? If "mxb" and "mxs" are in the draft of the HTTP spec, it's legitimate for http-wg to discuss their utility. As for a client-supplied link-speed estimate, I'll just point out that this is something that the server may be in a better position to estimate than the client. First, it may be the server's end of the connection is the performance bottleneck (the client is on a T1 and the server is at the end of a 14.4). Since server load is often the determining factor in response time, the server is usually in a better position to judge 'how fast' the request will be satisfied. The server may have more history of the response time for other clients from the same domain.
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