[opensource-dev] New HTTP Library & Project Viewer

Teravus Ovares teravus at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 08:45:17 PDT 2012


Good to see everyone having the HTTP spec discussion.    This is the
preverbial elephant in the room for this network solution.

Regards

Teravus

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Dahlia Trimble <dahliatrimble at gmail.com>wrote:

> I believe the 2 persistent HTTP connections/server recommendation is just
> that: a maximum of 2 *persistent* connections *per server*. Torrent
> downloads are more likely 1 connection per server with many servers.
> Torrent clients also have the ability for users to specify maximum outbound
> transfer rates and trying to overcome them by opening more connections to a
> particular server will likely not be fruitful.
>
> Also, networked system designers may have control of how endpoints are
> implemented but if the public internet is used as a transfer medium then
> they have little (if any) control over what happens between those
> endpoints. ISPs can (and often do) control traffic via whatever criteria
> they deem fit. Choke points likely exist in many places and end users may
> be powerless to understand and/or resolve issues caused by over-zealous
> connection hoarding.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Henri Beauchamp <sldev at free.fr> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:28:37 -0400, Monty Brandenberg wrote:
>>
>> > Here's a chart I keep forwarding:
>> >
>> http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/router-charts/bar/77-max-simul-conn
>> > Not officially endorsed by Linden, etc., but a useful measure of
>> > one metric that is likely to predict problems.  At the bottom of
>> > that chart you'll find members of router families that are both
>> > very common and very often a source of problems in SL.
>>
>> Very interesting chart... And quite frigthening too, seeing all the
>> so-called "routers" that can't even handle 1K connections !
>>
>> This said, such routers would also stall on torrent downloads.
>>
>> Henri.
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