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Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections?

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On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Yes, this off-topic, but after a fair amount of Googling and searching
> in the "right" places, I'm running out of ideas.
>
> I've got a very feeble web server.  The crypto handshaking involved in
> opening an https: connection takes 2-3 seconds.  That would be fine if
> a browser opened a single connection and then sent a series of
> requests on that connection to load the various elements on a page.
>
> But that's not what browsers do.  They all seem to open whole handful
> of connections (often as many as 8-10) and try to load all the page's
> elements in parallel.  That turns what would be a 3-4 second page load
> time (using a single connection) into a 20-30 second page load time.
> Even with plaintext http: connections, the multi-connection page load
> time is slower than the single-connection load time, but not by as
> large a factor.
>
> Some browsers have user-preference settings that limit the max number
> of simultaneous connections to a single server (IIRC the RFCs suggest
> a max of 4, but most browsers seem to default to a max of 8-16).
>
> What I really need is an HTTP header or meta-tag or something that I
> can use to tell clients to limit themselves to a single connection.
>
> I haven't been able to find such a thing, but I'm hoping I've
> overlooked something...

No such header exists, that I'm aware of.  The RFC simply recommends
limiting client connections to 2 per user, but modern browsers no
longer follow that recommendation and typically use 4-6 instead.

Do you really need to send all the page resources over HTTPS?  Perhaps
you could reduce some of the SSL overhead by sending images and
stylesheets over a plain HTTP connection instead.

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OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-08 17:25 +0000
  Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? donarb <donarb@nwlink.com> - 2013-11-08 09:39 -0800
  Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-11-08 11:39 -0600
    Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-08 18:01 +0000
  Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-09 05:16 +1100
    Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-08 19:20 +0000
      Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-09 06:39 +1100
        Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-08 20:48 +0000
          Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-09 08:01 +1100
            Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-08 21:14 +0000
              Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-09 08:29 +1100
  RE: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Nick Cash <nick.cash@npcinternational.com> - 2013-11-08 19:42 +0000
    Re: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-08 21:02 +0000
  Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-11-08 13:13 -0700
    Re: OT: How to tell an HTTP client to limit parallel connections? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-08 21:05 +0000

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