- From: <jg@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 95 14:26:37 -0500
- To: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
- Cc: Mike Cowlishaw <mfc@vnet.ibm.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
TCP_NODELAY is useful if there are asynchronous packets being generated (as opposed to a request/response pair) over a long lived connection. It was introduced for situations like mouse tracking, where a server may generate packets on a connection without immediately getting a response (which resets the delay in the OS). The delayed transmission of packets is for telnet like application behavior; if the network is slow, the local system won't see a packet on the same connection, and then can coalesce many keystrokes into a packet. I suspect it may be useful for HTTP or HTTP-NG, but some measurements need to be made to confirm this. Much more likely for NG, particularly when the server starts sending content speculatively. - Jim Gettys
Received on Monday, 13 November 1995 11:30:29 UTC