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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 [email protected] 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
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