There is no way of telling ahead of time if image exist unless it is said so by server. If there is no data coming in logically the chance the server is overloaded is higher. Think, if the server is not overloaded, and the file don't exist the 404 status should come back pretty quick too. Then mozilla would move to the next file.
Jo also point out that max-connection preference is avaiable to user.
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Michael T. Babcock wrote:
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no, i am speaking from the point of view of mozilla. how can mozilla discern the cause of a delay?? it cannot know that a delay means it should move onto another URL on the page. why should the second URL not be delayed just as long?
Its not that hard to realise that _no_ data has come from the server for that object at all, but that the server _has_ responded to other requests. Moving on to the next request and letting the first request's data show up if its going to show seems more intelligent than waiting until $timeout for things to be done with.
the proxy case i assume. yes, i'm well aware of this case. in this case, connection limits ae even more important. what would happen if the load on those proxy servers suddently doubled? do you really think you'd experience a faster internet? not so, which is why RFC2616 is very clear about the fact that useragents should limit the number of parallel connections.
It seems to me that this is the problem of the proxy server. Squid for example has its own built-in limits for user requests as well as load balancing; these may very well be the job of the browser in direct-connection situations, but I'd argue that they aren't (or not to the same extent) in the case of a proxy server which is acting _in proxy_ for the browser and therefore gains those responsibilities itself.
i wish you would use a newsgroup instead. n.p.m.netlib is for discussing these
sort of things.
Yeah, I'm here. Mind you, I probably will never receive any responses unless they're CC'd to me and although you seem to think this needs discussion first, I still stand by my feature request.
marking WONTFIX. please do not reopen this bug.Have a nice day yourself.
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