Posts Tagged ‘HTTP pipelining

The intertubes of the Web are abuzz with talk of the new, open-source Google Chrome browser [two articles here and here]. I will not presume to wade into the debate of whether it is necessary, or what strategic business goals Google has set that rely on having its own browser. I will limit my comments [...]

I am writing up a client presentation for next week, and I just realized just how flawed Internet Explorer is. Microsoft claims that the browser is standards compliant. Yet it still doesn’t support HTTP pipelining.
And the frustrating part? They won’t tell us why. I have my suspicions, which include TCP stack issues and a flawed [...]

Difference of Opinion

In: smp

4 Feb 2005

Port80 Software in San Diego is a team who is dedicated to improving Web performance.
However, they just recommended Maxthon, which uses the MSIE engine. [here]
I can’t buy into that. It still uses a core browser which has been patched but has not evolved since 1999. Until Microsoft releases a browser that can handle HTTP Pipelining [...]

I am extremely steamed at an article that just read on Caillon’s Blog which basically encourages people to disable HTTP Pipelining.
This is the wrong approach.
If a server announces that it is HTTP/1.1 compliant, then  it should be able to handle a browser that is using all of the HTTP/1.1 features. If someone is using a [...]


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