Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-new-httpd-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 27464 invoked by uid 500); 21 Mar 2001 22:12:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact new-httpd-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list new-httpd@apache.org Received: (qmail 27015 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2001 22:12:13 -0000 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:11:54 -0800 From: "Roy T. Fielding" To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: Piplined requests in HTTP/1.1 Message-ID: <20010321141154.C1137@waka.ebuilt.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Roy T. Fielding" , new-httpd@apache.org References: <00ad01c0b24e$112c6810$e4421b09@raleigh.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.13-current-20010115i In-Reply-To: <00ad01c0b24e$112c6810$e4421b09@raleigh.ibm.com>; from bill@wstoddard.com on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 04:29:52PM -0500 X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1-pre3 (http://amavis.org/) X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 04:29:52PM -0500, Bill Stoddard wrote: > Are pipelined requests really used? Only in W3C libwww and benchmarks, though I wouldn't be surprised if the latest version of MSIE's request dll uses them -- Henrik has been at Microsoft long enough, though I don't know if he has been doing anything in the MSIE universe. > The requirement that responses be sent > back in the order the request was received -really- sucks wind. Ummm, that would be the ordering constraint of HTTP not having request identifiers -- unrelated to pipelining, which is that the next request can be sent before the response to a prior request is received. ....Roy