Donny T. Daniel wrote: > Hi all, > > I thought of starting a different thread this discussion would be offtopic. > A statement from Matthew (summarized in the subject line) in the > Xunlei thread caught my attention. > > In your opinion, what could be improved in HTTP protocol to accomodate > (presumably congestion) characteristics of TCP ?
The problem of HTTP is that it starts new TCP connection for every new downloaded file. It leads to very significant slow down, when working with many small files. But it was changed in HTTP 1.1, which can reuse the same TCP connection for many HTTP requests. Though this change also has its price: at the server side it not so simple to maintain thousands of simultaneous TCP connections, even if most of them are passive. The Operation System begins to play against you at this case... _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
