Stas wanted me to send this to the list, so I'll do that... I've also done a little testing, and it looks like mod_status is showing 4 keepalive connections on my old (1.2.6 redhat secure) SSL server to my netscape 4.72 browser ... Srv PID Acc MCPU SSConn ChildSlot Host VHost Request 0 13413 4/4/4 K0.08 4 0.9 0.00 0.00 216.86.106.124secure.baremetal.com GET /icons/burst.gif HTTP/1.0 2 8451 11/14/14 K0.23 4 3.0 0.01 0.01 216.86.106.124secure.baremetal.com GET /icons/forward.gif HTTP/1.0 3 8450 7/11/11 K0.35 4 1.6 0.01 0.01 216.86.106.124secure.baremetal.com GET /icons/sound.gif HTTP/1.0 4 8449 6/10/10 W0.31 0 5.0 0.01 0.01 216.86.106.124secure.baremetal.com GET /server-status HTTP/1.0 I'm not sure why only 28 files are shown in the "this connection" column, there were 29 icons, an html file, and the status page... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Srv Server number PID OS process ID Acc Number of accesses this connection / this child / this slot M Mode of operation CPU CPU usage, number of seconds SS Seconds since beginning of most recent request Conn Kilobytes transferred this connection ChildMegabytes transferred this child Slot Total megabytes transferred this slot Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:43:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Proxy setup w/ SSL > > > initiating many connections and downloading all the objects (e.g. images) > > > in parallel, the objects are downloaded sequencially. > > > > No. AFAIK It still opens up multiple/parallel connections... it just > > doesn't go through the handshake stuff repeatedly... > > Really? That's what I was always told. Any pointers to read about > this. Thanks! Sorry, no... although it should be easy enought to test, even mod_status should provide enough information... Part of my logic is that the browser doesn't even know if the connection is going to be keep alive until it gets the first response... so if you load a page from domain.com, and it contains 20 images from images.domain.com there would have to be a "test load" of the first image before deciding whether to open up multiple connections ... strikes me as simpler to just proceed as normal and use the pipelining on all connections if it is available... (maybe things are different for SSL than normal connections, but again, I can't see why they would be...)