- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:01:45 +0200
- To: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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
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