Re: Why is HTTPS 10 times slower compared to HTTP

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Girish S wrote:

> I also see that Keep-Alive does not have any effect on connection.

The server limits this. Persistent connections can very well be made over 
HTTPS as well.

> Libwww and SSL always try to make new connection and exchange certs/keys 
> with the server on every new request made (within 2-3 seconds!)

SSL session id caching drastically reduces re-connection times. I don't know 
of libwww features that. libcurl does.

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