Re: maximum connections

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> John A. Lauro wrote:
>
> > I don't understand, Navigator is part of communicator (as are other
> > components), how can the setting be between 1 and 32 and also always
> > be 2???
>
> My fault. By Navigator I refer to Netscape Navigator 3.X, and
> Comminucator is Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.X.
>
> > Also, it's been my experience that Communicator 4.x is 4 (or
> > might be more) open connections and I wish I could lower it! If you
> > know how, please let me know.
>
> Looks like I am misinformed on this issue. Lets hope future versions pay
> attention to the HTTP 1.1 specification and uses at most 2 persistent
> connections to any server/proxy..
>
> Doing a grep on a netscape 4.x binary reveals
> pref("network.max_connections", 4);
> which suggests that netscape 4.x by default uses 4 connections.
>
> Looking in my preferences.js file I found this line:
> user_pref("network.max_connections", 2);
> which probably is resulting from that I have lowered the setting
> manually in Navigator 3.x before starting 4.x the first time..
>
> The good news is that the user has no intiutive way of setting this
> higher than 4 connections in 4.x. The bad news is that if a user has
> been using Navigator 3.x and manually changed the number of connections
> to a higher value, then 4.x will most likely import this when upgrading
> and the user has no easy way of resetting it to 4 (or preferably 2).
>
> This value can easily be changed if your are using the professional
> version with accompanying administrative tools for site wide
> configuration, if you know what to change (which you do now).
>
> If you are not using the professional version then each user has to get
> his preferences.js file updated/fixed.

IIRC, that value is used per browser-window. So if you start up and
browse in three different windows, each one will use up to
network.max_connections connections to the server/proxy.

D
Received on Tue Dec 01 1998 - 19:16:46 MST