- From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:49:50 -0700
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, yngve@opera.com, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
--On 20. juli 2007 15:55 -0700 "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote: > > On Jul 19, 2007, at 7:01 PM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: >> actually pipelining (as far as I remember the debates - it is many >> years ago now) was added in an effort to get HTTP to be a better- >> behaved network citizen. > > That was persistent connections. Pipelining is keeping the outgoing > half of the connection in use while waiting for responses. Persistent > connections have other benefits beyond congestion control, but that > was its primary reason for introduction. You're right, I was mixing the two concepts. Persistence is necessary for pipelining, but it's possible to implement persistence without pipelining (and from the conversation, it seems that that's the common case).
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