From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 14 17:39:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA09667 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA09633; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:39:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA01613; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:38:12 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199610150038.RAA01613@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: TTCP based web client/server To: sunil@cc.gatech.edu (Sunil Upendra Khaunte) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:38:12 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <3262D387.41C67EA6@cc.gatech.edu> from "Sunil Upendra Khaunte" at Oct 14, 96 07:57:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is anyone aware of a TTCP based web client/server implementation? > If Yes,can someone provide some information on the application > level protocol used? Has some optimisation of the HTTP code been > done to complement the TTCP advantage? HTTP 1.1 supports "Keep alive" connections, where the connection to a particular host is left up for some time window for subsequent requests to the same server host. The client signals "Keep alive" in the request header, and the server leaves the connection up pending additional requests, if it recognizes the option. This requires the server to correctly set the "Content-length" in reply documents to signal "end of document" to the client (rather than just closing the connection). For more information on "Keep alive", see: R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, T. Berners-Lee "Hypertext transfer protocol - HTTP/1.1" November 22, 1995 http://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-02.txt Yes, I *do* keep track of *everything*. 8-). Ask me about a WebNFS(tm) prototype for FreeBSD if you want to hear lots of complaints about the existing VFS/VOP framework. ;-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.