On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Mike Dierken wrote: > > I had one small question about "[..] the latency involved in having to > establish new TCP connections for each HTTP message is non-existent in > WebSocket". I know that you know that persistent HTTP 1.1 connections > reduce the number of times an open/close of a connection would occur, so > I was curious what's actually happening that connections are created for > each request. (Not that I think the answer will or should change > anything to do with WebSockets, just a curiousity sort of thing). Non-idempotent messages have to be sent using POST, which cannot be pipelined in practice. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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