HTTP 1.1 Pipelining

[Christian Schwendtner]

Hi,

I want to enable HTTP/1.1 pipelining in IE6. Is that possible and how?

If not, are there some tools available which do HTTP pipelining?

Is there a connection to the maxConnections property (persistent
connections)?


I hope you can help me.

Thanks a lot,
gts,
Chris

 

[Stephen Sulzer]

No, IE6 does not support HTTP/1.1 pipelining. The HTTP client stack
component that IE is based on, WinInet.dll, does not support it.

I'm not sure what you mean by tools. Are you writing a program and need an
HTTP library that supports pipelining? If so, then take a look at the
System.Net web classes in the Microsoft .NET Framework; I think the
WebRequest class supports HTTP pipelining.

Regarding "maxConnections", the WinInet component that IE uses is configured
to create a maximum of two simultaneous socket connections to the same
server (or proxy), per the HTTP/1.1 specification. WinInet also supports
persistent ("keep-alive") connections and enables persistent connections by
default.

Stephen