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On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Stefan Savage wrote:
> Taken from the e2e list. The interesting part is the claim that most
> web sessions reuse the same four connections. Something perhaps to
> check in the web traces being taken.
>
> - 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
> > 40 Sylvan Rd., Waltham, MA 02254
> > (617) 466-4142
> >
>