Connection limits (issue 131), was: p1-message-07 S 7.1.4

Adrien de Croy wrote:
> 
> I thought it had been decided to abandon the recommendation for 2 
> connections only.
> 
> But this is still in the latest draft.
> 
> "Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of
> simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A
> single-user client SHOULD NOT maintain more than 2 connections with
> any server or proxy. A proxy SHOULD use up to 2*N connections to
> another server or proxy, where N is the number of simultaneously
> active users. These guidelines are intended to improve HTTP response
> times and avoid congestion. "
> ...

Yes, the was discussed before (see 
<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/131>), and I think 
there was agreement that something needs to change. But we never got there.

 > ...

BR, Julian

Received on Saturday, 18 July 2009 08:02:39 UTC