- From: William A. Rowe, Jr. <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:30:31 -0500
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Mark Nottingham wrote: > <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/131> > > """ > Clients (including proxies) SHOULD limit the number of simultaneous > connections that they maintain to a given server (including proxies). > > Previous revisions of HTTP gave a specific number of connections as a > ceiling, but this was found to be impractical for many applications. As > a result, this specification does not mandate a particular maximum > number of connections, but instead encourages clients to be conservative > when opening multiple connections. > """ It really seems like this is ripe for a Connection: max=# tag recommendation. Wherein the application can recommend a number of parallel connections that 1) they support and 2) provide optimal user/application experience. But this would be out of scope of 2616bis :)
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