[email protected] writes:
> Hi ,
>
> We are now in the process of rolling-out web based applications to a number of
> remote VSAT connected sites. With the tests we did, I have to conclude that the
> performance of HTTP is rather poor. Now one factor that might have an impact is
> that we use Transaction reservation on the VSAT inroutes. (TR give round trip
> times of about 1500msec). We don't have any choice, we cannot use Stream for all
> remote sites. Is there a way to improve the performance, we know for example the
> product Venturi (from Fourelle) but that product turns the HTTP protocol into
> something proprietary protocol. What I'm trying to find out is : are there
> tunings possible to the existing standard HTTP protocol ?
>
> Many Thanks,
> Guy Raymakers
>
>
Unless you use http 1.1 and use the persistent TCP connections (forgot
the real name, sorry) that do not open a TCP connection for each HTTP
request then you are pretty much out of luck. With 1.5 sec RTT, you
will get awful performance for HTTP traffic (on the order of
8Kbytes/sec or so). Your best bet is to use one of the available TCP
spoofing/proxy boxes and break the end-2-end semantics.
-- Bora Akyol, PhD BBN Technologies GTE Internetworking
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