> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spencer Dawkins [mailto:sdawkins@nortelnetworks.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 3:41 PM
> To: 'Henrik Nordstrom'
> Cc: wrec@cs.utk.edu
> Subject: RE: oh the irony
>
> So I'm wondering, if all the servers get fixed, and all the
> clients get
> fixed, will we be running persistent connections THEN?
>
Well, sort of. :)
As it stands today, IE4 and IE5 will do HTTP/1.1 and persistent
connections by default. Based on this, I would say there are
a fair amount of persistent connections in use today.
Just a quick test, cnet and amazon both seem to support persistent
connections. So, I don't know if most servers disable it or not,
but some very busy sites do allow them.
On a related note, I think one of the major issues, which hasn't
been mentioned here yet, is the server utilization. From the
web site's perspective, which handles hundreds of requests
per second, holding a persistent connection open for even a mere
second is very expensive. This is especially painful for servers
that maintain a more or less fixed set of processes or maximum
concurrent connections such as Apache.
I think that often, because of this, server admins choose to
prioritize their own server resources over the health of the net.
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