Re: my broken TCP is faster on broken networks

Majdi Abbas (abbas@barnacle.cdtelecom.com)
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 07:57:30 -0400 (EDT)

> It seems people from Netscape should read the RFC's...
>
> RFC 2068 (HTTP/1.1) explicitly says:
>
> Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of
> simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A
> single-user client SHOULD maintain AT MOST 2 connections with any
> server or proxy. A proxy SHOULD use up to 2*N connections to another
> server or proxy, where N is the number of simultaneously active
> users. These guidelines are intended to improve HTTP response times
> and avoid congestion of the Internet or other networks.

HTTP/1.1 didn't exist when that implementation was written.

Before you criticise anyone else, do keep some historical
perspective.

Cheers,

--msa

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