On Sun, Feb 06, 2005, Danny Lieberman wrote about "Speed up Firefox by
pipelining http requests":
> Firefox installation default is to make one http request at a time. When
> you enable pipelining it will make several at once,which really speeds
> up page loading.
Are you sure you're not confusing several things?
I believe that Firefox, just like its Mozilla and Netscape predecessors,
does open several connections at once (I remember the default being 4
connections, I don't know what it is now).
HTTP 1.1 pipelining, on the other hand, is a completely different matter.
It allows you to open just ONE connection the the server, and ask it for
several files in advance. This has several benefits: it reduces the number
of packets (when compared to the ordinary keepalive series-of-requests
situation), and it reduces the latency by allowing the server to start working
on several requests, and perhaps return them in a different order.
See also:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/pipelining-faq.html
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec8.html
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