- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:57:46 -0400
- To: lex@cc.gatech.edu (Lex Spoon), www-lib@w3.org
At 17:12 12/07/1999 -0400, Lex Spoon wrote: >I'm trying to get acquainted with libwww. One question: how can I allow >more than 1 connection to go to a server at one time? Is this possible? > >It's not a big deal--in my most immediate application, requests should be >somewhat infrequent anyway. However, in my application, *all* requests will >be going to the same server, and so it's being overly nice to the server to >only allow one connection at a time. Libwww is really designed to only have one connection but - if you are using an HTTP/1.1 server I think you will find it likely that in fact using one connection is faster then using multiple connections - you may want to have a look at our paper on this: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Performance/Pipeline.html Henrik -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk
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