- From: Balint Nagy Endre <bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 18:38:18 +0100 (MET)
- To: Dave Kristol <dmk@allegra.att.com>
- Cc: http WG <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Dave Kristol writes: ... > I find it hard to imagine the timeout information to be useful. Agree again. I use a 14.4 K dialup line to access the internet. Within hungary a go trough a 2Mbit radio link, and the international links are 128Kbit lines. It is easy to saturate any of these links. (e.g. an smtp connection can saturate my acces line.) I seen one minute RTTs. Measuring the RTT to adjust timeouts helps nothing, because the load (and RTT) on the lines changes rapidly depending on the activity of other users. If proxies are in between, then the load of the proxies adds an other unpredictable delay. The race condition mentioned by Henrik is unavoidable. Andrew. (Endre Balint Nagy) <bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu>
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