[thelist] Spreading sites between different hosts

[Scott Dexter]

> 
> How is this streaming improved by the ten gifs being on the 
> same server as
> the Web page? Wouldn't the same streaming limitations apply - 
> because the
> limitations are in the browser on the client side?
> 

there's a little tweak in http 1.1 called KeepAlive, and the browser will
keep the connection nailed up if there are other things to download from
that connection. The destination server has to support KeepAlives (and have
them turned on), but it can help some because it alleviates the redundant
tear-down/set-up of connections to the same server *in the same request
batch.*

> Sorry if these are naive questions, but, the technical aspects of Web
> communication and file transfer is a big black fog to me.

no prob (eventhough I'm hopping in here ;) )

check out:

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Performance/


sgd
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