Re: more than 2 downloads

Michael Lefevre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.prefs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
In article <[email protected]>, Jay Garcia wrote:
> On 15.09.03 17:20, Blair Bordeaux wrote:
>> no they just wait and no dialog pops up.. It is a default for both IE and
>> mozilla to only allow 2 simultaneous d/ls from one http site at a time.
>> This is good for lots of little files or a few small files (typical) but bad
>> for lots of big files.
[snip]
> 
> While writing this reply, I'm downloading 4 files from one website, each
> about 14 megs. Win98se - Mozilla 1.5b latest nightly.

The default limit of 2 only applies to servers which support "keep alive"
(sending several files over one connection).  Otherwise the default is 8.

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Michael
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