Re: [Fwd: Re: Mainframe not a good architecture for interactive wasRe: What is the future of COBOL? Answer: Irrelevant???]]

From: Hugh Candlin (no_at_spam.com)
Date: 01/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:41:21 GMT

John S. Giltner, Jr. <giltjr@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:zTlRb.146$zG1.71@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
>
> Yes, HTTP as a defined protocol can create as many connection as allowed
> However, most modern web browser limit the number of connections created
> to render a single web page to 5. The 1st connection is used to get the
> main html page and they use up to 4 other concurrent sessions to get the
> other files that may be reference in the HTML document. Many years back
> you had the option to change and the range was from 1 to 8, at least in
> the first version of Netscape that I used you had this option. You may
> still be able to this, but it is not obvious to me. If you deployed
> your application based on HTTP, or wrote your own Web Browser, you could
> start as many connections as you wish. In fact in Mozilla based browers
> you can enable HTTP pipelining and this will use just a single HTTP
> connection to transfer all files referenced in the html document.

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 183110
INFO: WinInet Limits Connections Per Server
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;183110

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