> From [email protected] Fri Aug 1 12:28:44 1997
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> Subject: Re: HTTP 1.1 pipelining & persistent connections query
> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 15:25:54 -0400
> From: Curtis Villamizar <[email protected]>
>
...
> > The benefits of pipelining over persistent connections depends on the
> > behavior of the client.
...
> The problem that this is supposed to solve is cases where congestion
> exists and/or loss is high. If RTT is larger than just LAN times it
...
> In any case with persistent connections the 3 way hand shake is
> avoided on each graphic image. The 3 way hand shake is very
> susseptible to very long delays (6 second or more) in the presense of
> loss since RTO is not yet initialized. If you compute the expected
Agreed, however I could have opened several simultaneous connections
for the graphics, even before I had gotten the initial HTML response.
That delay can therefore be masked, unless the additional connection
establishment packets add to the loss.
Joe
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ISI / Project Leader, ATOMIC-2, LSAM http://www.isi.edu/atomic2/
USC / Research Assistant Prof. http://www.isi.edu/lsam/
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