Re: Pipelining

On Saturday 09 July 2011 13:28:09 Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > 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.

Well, I have a huge latency because of too much users, so that's kind of what 
I need.

> > 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.

Is that "legal" ? I mean, does the RFC says so, or is it some Polipo-specific 
behavior ?

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

That is great :)

> > 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?

What, didn't you know that TCP is being replaced by HTTP ?

(More seriously, I thought about the in-browser google-talk, which is 
transmited using a single chunked connection).

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