[opensource-dev] New HTTP Library & Project Viewer

Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) oz at lindenlab.com
Tue Oct 23 12:23:02 PDT 2012


On 2012-10-23 14:05 , Dahlia Trimble wrote:
> Would this excerpt from RFC2616 (section 8.2) be relevent?  Perhaps 
> some routers and other infrastructure assume this as design criteria:
> "
>     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. "

Very much so


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