- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@www10.w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 15:49:01 -0500
- To: Ka-Ping Yee <kryee@wheat.uwaterloo.ca>, www-talk@www10.w3.org
At 03:26 PM 1/28/97 -0500, Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > >If anyone on this list knows about clients and/or servers which >currently support persistent connections, could you let me know? >Do they all use the "Connection: Keep-Alive" header to indicate >that a connection should be held open? We have done some performance analysis of HTTP/1.1 and how it can outperform HTTP/1.0 in significant ways. One of the most important parts of this is the use of persistent connections and pipelining. The result imposes much less load on the Internet and the end-user also wins as he/she gets the data sooner. If you are doing a HTTP/1.1 implementation then I urge you to study our results! We are still working on the data, but you can find the preliminary results at http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/Performance/Pipeline.html These tests are based on the libwww robot and the Jigsaw server - both available from the W3C site. >Do any clients or servers support the scheme where the server >transmits all the inline images immediately after transmitting >a document, even if the client doesn't ask? This is probably not a good idea as this essentially will short circuit any caches in between. Thanks, Henrik -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, <frystyk@w3.org> World Wide Web Consortium, MIT/LCS NE43-346 545 Technology Square, Cambridge MA 02139, USA
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