On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 06:12:41PM +0100, Hartmut Keil wrote: > The client must stop and wait for the response in any case, otherwise the > response of a subsequent request will get lost, if the server is not > configured > for keep-alive, or the response for the first request causes the server to > close > the connection:
It's not the case that clients "must stop and wait" - read RFC 2616 for a description of HTTP pipelining. Regards, Joe