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On 2016-01-05 20:38, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 07:53 pm, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> 
> > Why would someone want to make 400 HTTP requests in a short time?
> 
> For the same reason they want to make 400 HTTP requests over a long
> time, except that they're in a hurry.
> 
> Maybe they're stress-testing a web server, or they just want to
> download things in a rush.

Maybe they just want to generate lots of errors.  It's generally more
productive to make lots of 200 HTTP requests[*]. ;-)

-tkc


[*] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html