ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2616.txt Just before section 8.2 Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A single-user client SHOULD NOT maintain more than 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.
It also says, along with other W3 literature, that the preferred strategy is to use a small number of persistent pipelined connections, rather than a large number of connections one per file. Maybe we can get a patch into mozilla that allows different limits for different hosts? Maybe we could even have it default to a lot for localhost, or for localhost:8888 ? -- Matthew Toseland toad at amphibian.dyndns.org amphibian at users.sourceforge.net Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker. Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/11/02. http://freenetproject.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20021028/faebbb6c/attachment.pgp>
