On 2016-05-16, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2016 02:06 am, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> This is not Python specific, though I'm turning to Python to do some
>> experimentation and to try to prototype a solution.
>>
>> Is there any way to limit the number of connections a browser uses to
>> download a web page?
>
> Well, you control the server. It's your own server, right? Can you
> not tell the server to limit how many connections it accepts from
> any one client?
Definitely.
> That's not a rhetorical question -- I don't know the answer, and I
> know nothing about HTTPS server. But I would imagine that they don't
> allow unlimited connections from each client. Can you tell your
> server to only allow N connections from each client, where N is
> small enough?
Yep, I should be able to do that. I can even reduce it to a simpler
case of only allowing N connections total. Saying we only support one
browser session at a time is probably acceptable if it solves the long
https page load times.
Before I go to the effort of hacking up the server to change how/when
it accepts connections[1], I want to try prototyping something like
that Python to make sure that refusing or stalling a "parallel"
connection won't cause the browser to throw up its hands and tell the
user "this page can't be loaded."
[1] We didn't write the server. We licensed source from somebody
yonks ago. It was then abaondoned and maintined by us and by
applying patches we got from other users in our situation.
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