i'm looking for help testing HTTP/1.1 pipelining that just recently 
landed on the mozilla trunk.  by default it is disabled, but if people 
can enable pipelining and use it for normal daily browsing that would 
great!  i'd greatly appreciate any feedback about problems that seem 
related to pipelining.

to enable pipelining, go to the Advanced->HTTP Networking preferences 
panel.  there's a checkbox for HTTP/1.1 pipelining... enable it!!

to learn more about HTTP/1.1 pipelining see:
http://mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/pipelining-faq.html
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec8.html#sec8.1
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Performance/Pipeline.html

please send mail to me or file bugs if you encounter any problems with 
HTTP/1.1 pipelining in mozilla.

i'm especially interested in whether or not this feature makes any 
significant performance difference in real world use.  i've shown that 
it improves mozilla's performance on an isolated LAN using jrgm's 
pageloader, but the gain is not very significant (2-3%).  i expect this 
to help out a lot more over slower internet connections, so if you can 
help try this out over a modem link that would be especially helpful.

thanks in advance!
darin

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