Re: more than 2 downloads

Ben Bucksch wrote:
> 
> Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
> 
> >GNKSA mandates no more than 4...
> >
> huh? Reference?
> 
> GNKSA talks about Usenet. Did they broaden the scope?
> 
> TenThumbs wrote:
> 
> >Which is a silly limit if you're using a proxy server since you and the proxy owner probably know each other.
> >
> Mozilla's limit only applies to the target server, not the server, to my
> knowledge.

Actually it's rfc2616 which says in section 8.1.4:

   Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of
   simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A
   single-user client SHOULD NOT maintain more than 2 connections with
   any server or proxy. A proxy SHOULD use up to 2*N connections to
   another server or proxy, where N is the number of simultaneously
   active users. These guidelines are intended to improve HTTP response
   times and avoid congestion.

Mozilla has chosen to treat SHOULD as MUST (or at least it used to) despite
the fact that this is clearly marked as a guideline. If the client (me) and
the proxy server administrator (also me) agree on a larger limit then mozilla
shouldn't get in the way (which it does).