- From: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:32:47 +0100
- To: www-talk@w3.org
>>> "Fish" <fish@infidels.org> 24-Oct-00 5:01:17 PM >>> >> I'm under the assumption that because the hyperlinks >> reference the same address/port, a single connection should >> be used to retrieve the 'documents'. >If the server that's servicing your requests is an HTTP/1.1 >compliant server, it should -- if it *can*. But "using persistent connections" is open to some interpretation (as always). RFC2616 section 8.1.4 suggests that a client might want to open more than one connection to a server but also suggests that clients limit that to 2 connections per server. However... I've seen some versions on IE 5.0 do up to 5 connections per server. 2 connections per server (for a non proxy client) would seem to be about right - it enables documents and referenced content to be downloaded fairly simultaneously whilst maximizing connection re-use. Latest versions of IE 5.0 (that I've seen anyway) seem to stick to the 2 connections per server rule of thumb. Nic Ferrier
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