On 2013-11-08, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 2013-11-08, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Are you using HTTP 1.1 with connection reuse?
>>
>> Yes. And several years ago when I first enabled that feature in the
>> server, I verified that some browsers were sending multiple requests
>> per connection (though they still often attempted to open multiple
>> connections). More recent browsers seem much more impatient and are
>> determined to open as many simultaneous connections as possible.
>
> Yeah, but at least it's cut down from one connection per object to
> some fixed number. But you've already done that.
>
>>> Alternatively, since fixing it at the browser seems to be hard, can
>>> you do something ridiculously stupid like... tunnelling insecure HTTP
>>> over SSH?
>>
>> Writing code to implement tunnelling via the ssh protocol is probably
>> out of the question (resource-wise).
>>
>> If it were possible, how is that supported by browsers?
>
> You just set your hosts file to point the server's name to localhost
> [...]
Ah, I see.
All I have control over is the server. I have no influence over the
client side of things other than what I can do in the HTTP server.
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