- Stefan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Warren [SMTP:pwarren@gte.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 1998 7:27 AM
> To: stevea@shastanets.com; end2end-interest@ISI.EDU
> Subject: RE: RFC 1337: Time-wait assassination
>
> [Steve Alexander:]
> >Anyway, the whole issue will be moot if persistent HTTP takes off ;->
>
> Persistent HTTP actually took off some time ago ago. Both major
> browsers
> since version 3.0 each, as well as all major Web servers, support
> KeepAlive, Netscape's version of persisent connections that was
> introduces
> a few years ago. (The HTTP 1.1 version is somewhat different, but
> works
> substantially the same in keeping connections open for reuse.)
> Certainly,
> the traffic traces I capture show KeepAlive enabled for most
> connections.
> Netscape, for instance, opens up to four parallel TCP connections,
> then
> reuses the same four ports as they become freed up.
>
> So I believe that persistent connections are now probably the default
> HTTP
> behavior out there now (unless there are a lot of pre- v. 3 browsers
> still
> active).
>
> = Peter
>
>
>
> Peter G. Warren
> Performance Analysis Group
> Advanced Systems Laboratory
> GTE Laboratories
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>