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I see it all the time. "New" and better web servers (weblogic, websphere, webmethods, etc) all are getting bloated too and all have different interpretations of HTTP 1.1, it's a joke. Add vendors mucking with the browser and it is a mess.....it wont get any better unfortunately. Quoting Dinesh Nair <dinesh at alphaque dot com>: > > On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Fred Wright wrote: > > > On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Dinesh Nair wrote: > > > the problem manifested itself more in IE because of the way IE does not > > > close a connection when it's done with it. thus IE users would have been > > > more likely to hit the bug, though other browsers would have eventually > > > hit it as well. testing on IE made it more apparent. > > > > Safari keeps HTTP/1.1 sessions open as well. I'd expect that to be > > increasingly common. > > if more browsers did this, it's going to throw sizing figures of public > webservers totally out of whack. most operating systems have an upper > limit on how many open sockets they can have at any one time. web > performance sizing has always been predicated on transient connections. in > fact, using persistent connections (introduced in http/1.1) was a way to > reduce the number of socket connections made to a web server, all in the > name of cutting down on tcp overhead. > > Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." > dinesh at alphaque dot com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ > +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ > | for a in past present future; do | > | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | > | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | > | done; done | > +=========================================================================+ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > -- Chet Harvey Pitbull Technologies <http://www.pittech.com/> Protecting your Digital Assets 703.407.7311 |