In blatant violation of the HTTP standard, of course… IE8.

Thursday 27 August 2009 - Filed under Uncategorized

Proudly, they say:

In IE8 Beta 1 we also increased our per-server connection limit from 2 to 6. What this means is that in IE7 and below pages could only download 2 elements from a given server at any one time. Increasing that limit to 6 allows sites to download 3 times as much content in parallel, which should translate into faster page download times when bandwidth is available.

Oh thanks. The browser of “choice” for people who don’t know anything about the internet… can (and will) now consume 3 times as many connections on your web server.

You can claim this is an outdated limitation, but here it is, in the HTTP/1.1 spec, RFC2616 Section 8.1.4:

A single-user client SHOULD NOT maintain more than 2 connections with any server or proxy.

2009-08-27  »  admin