Improved viewer and script communications (Re: [sldev] Puppettering Branch)

[Tateru Nino]

Actually it is not a mandate. A mandate would be a MUST NOT. This is a 
SHOULD NOT, specifically:
"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."

I've got personal knowledge that the author did not intend the above to 
apply to situations like this. For the substrate to MSIE, however, it is 
entirely appropriate. Also, the above only applies to persistent 
connections, not non-persistent connections (applying the same guideline 
to non-persistent connections would cause problems that this guideline 
is intended to avoid).

Just because you're doing HTTP, doesn't make you a part of the Web, and 
connection considerations in Web architecture over HTTP are different to 
other architectures over HTTP.




Teravus Ovares wrote:
> I also note, that according to Microsoft's kb article:
>  
> "The HTTP 1.1 specification (RFC2616) mandates the two-connection 
> limit. The four-connection limit for HTTP 1.0 is a self-imposed 
> restriction that coincides with the standard that is used by a number 
> of popular Web browsers."
>  
> You can read the article here:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183110
>  
> You can read the RFC here:
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html
>  
> Best Regards
>  
> Teravus