On Sun, Feb 06, 2005, Kobi Cohen-Arazi wrote about "Fwd: Speed up Firefox by 
pipelining http requests":
> http://christopher.aillon.org/blog/dev/mozilla/20050105-pipelining.html

This is a very good point. Pipelining is probably one of the least used
parts of the HTTP 1.1 standard. No popular browser makes use of it (in
fact, until a few minutes ago, I wasn't even aware that Firefox supports
it), and because nobody uses it, some servers don't support it well.
Worse, even the servers that do support pipelining (all HTTP 1.1 supporting
servers should...), don't always get the full benefit from it. An ideal
implementation would require the server or proxy to start fetching all
requested pages concurrently, and return them in the order they are
available. I'm not aware of any common Web server that actually does that.

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