Re: Pipelining

Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.polipo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> According to reference links on Polipo's homepage, HTTP / 1.1 Pipelining is 
> somewhat magic and will enlarge your... er... bandwidth, that's it.

Not quite, it will hide your latency.  Not necessarily important if
you're on a good Internet connection, extremely noticeable if you're
over a high-latency link such as satellite, 3G, or tor.

> However, in real-life, does this pipelining happen often ?

As soon as you have a page with more than two or three embedded images.

> Do most browsers use it when possible?

It doesn't matter -- Polipo will pipeline even if the browser doesn't.

> Else, is it possible to force Polipo into pipelining everything and
> convert it back to HTTP 1.0 for the client?

That's what Polipo does by default if the client only speaks /1.0.

> Another question : can several clients be pipelined through the same 
> connexion?

Yes.

> Say, I have 30 people using Google Talk in the same time, can I have
> them all on the same connection ?

Is Google Talk layered over HTTP?  Really?

-- Juliusz


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