- From: Zhou Kang <ZhouKang@cheerful.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 01:08:43 +0800
- To: HTTP-WG <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com>
- Message-Id: <01bd80ed$47e47180$2b6162ca@ZHOU>
Hi, Every body: HTTP/1.1 says when web server deals with the pipelined requests in persistent connections, it must return responses in same order that they recieved. I think that is an idea not good enough, at least in some special situations. I am working on a web server and write my master degree thesis about HTTP. My implementation supports both multi-thread and persistent connections. But with my test, in some situation , ordered processing in pipeline requests costs long waiting time . For example: when a request in the pipeline needs a long time processing (like retrieve data from a database) , so the later responses must wait even if they has been ready for being sent away. In this situation , web server has to deal with the ordered messages at the cost of a long response time and more resource for holding the ready response in memory. In fact, we can make some minor alteration to http server's performance. For example, we can add a header to the messages to indicate the request/response pair, something like 'Request-ID'. A client may create a unique digital ID for every request to the same server , then the server can return responses with this ID or without but use the same order. To name this mechanism , I call it as 'non-order processing'. Any question and comment about this 'non-order processing', and my web server or my thesis as well, please contact with me: zhoukang@cheerful.com . I can share source code of my web server with others. Zhou Kang Computer Department, Sichuan University of P.R.China
Received on Sunday, 17 May 1998 11:45:30 UTC