This belongs to netlib... Subhash Chopra wrote: > > HI, > > We did some evaluation of mozilla M18 build on linux 7 with pipelining ON. > The test web site which we used has 16 gifs. The sniffer used revealed that > mozilla uses only 1 TCP connection for fetching the html as well as the > embedded gifs. It first sends the GET for html and after getting the servers > response, it concatenates the GET request for each one of the gifs and sends > over to the web server. The web server ( in my case apache 1.3.19) prepares > the response by concatenating the response header and the gif data for all the > 16 gifs. so far, everything is OK.. now mozilla gets the response and it hangs > ( may be its not able to demarcate the gifs boundary).. did anyone else > observe the same behaviour..if yes, is it logged in bugzilla.. If its a known > problem and nobody is working on this, i offer my help in getting it > better... > > Apart from this, we are working on figuring out efficient ways of secure web > browsing with satellite as the transmission medium. If the browser/origin > server supports only HTTP 1.0, it would result a major overhead in terms of > SSL handshake for each TCP connection being set up for getting the HTML as > well as the embedded gifs etc > > Though HTTP 1.1 provides some respite as it supports persistent connections > and pipelining. We would still like it to take bit further and figure out a > solution which is more bandwidth effective and provides faster access. > This is keeping in mind that SSL handshake cant be spoofed........... > > Any thoughts?????? > > Any comments................ > > Also we would also like to contribute to the developement of mozilla browser > to bring it as close to the best (in terms of HTTP 1.1 compliance etc) as > possible........ > > -Subhash > > ______________ > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
