Re: my broken TCP is faster on broken networks

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:54:44 +0200

> It is another vendors attempt to make their browser look "faster" than
> others. Netscape always opens up 4 connections in parallel by default
> and uses persistant transactions over each one. You can configure it
> to use only one open connection.

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.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system." -- S. Cray


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