On Sat, Feb 07, 1998 at 09:06:41PM -0800, Paul A Vixie wrote:
the whole idea of opening multiple tcp sessions "to get better performance"
Paul, I believe you mispelled "to get better user perceived performance". Anyone who's worked with SNA knows that if the 3270 paints the screen in 1 second, after waiting 8 seconds, then it's obviously better than the serial termina that starts painting at 3 seconds, and is done at 7: "why, obviously: the 3270 painted the screen 4 times faster!"
is just horrible in any case. http/1.1 can do serial multiplexing when talking to a particular server, and browsers have now got no excuse at all for opening more than one connection unless it's to more than one server.
You're suggesting that 1.1 can multiplex more than one item retrieval over a single connection? Interleaved, I mean, not in series. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com