On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 10:35:28 AM UTC-7, Peter Otten wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > > This is not Python specific, though I'm turning to Python to do some > > experimentation and to try to prototype a solution. > > > > Is there any way to limit the number of connections a browser uses to > > download a web page? Browser writers seems to assume that all https > > servers are massively parallel server farms with hardware crypto > > support. > > > > So, when a browser wants to load a page that has the main html file, a > > css file, a javascript library or two, and a few icons and background > > bitmaps, they browser opens up a half-dozen SSL connections in > > parallel. > > [brainstorm-mode on] > > I think HTTP/2 allows multiple requests over a single TCP connection.
HTTP/1.1 already supports it, but most browsers have it disabled by default. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
