RE: Article: Fat protocols slow Web services

> 
> - Use Security Socket Layer (SSL), which, as DesAutels says, 
> can also be network and server/client side time-intensive, 
> since for each transaction "you're taking SSL up and down" 

Isn't HTTP Keep-Alive supported?
If it was, would that minimize the number of new SSL connections required
for multiple req/res pairs?
Or am I mis-understanding 'transaction'?

Received on Tuesday, 8 January 2002 15:44:37 UTC