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Topic: Keepalive
Posted By: huwnet
Subject: Keepalive
Date Posted: 23 April 2005 at 2:41pm
What are the advantages of keepalive?

On busy sites keepalive is turned off because it improves performance.


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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 23 April 2005 at 5:13pm
Originally posted by google google wrote:


The Keep-Alive extension to HTTP, as defined by the HTTP/1.1 draft, allows persistent connections. These long-lived HTTP sessions allow multiple requests to be send over the same TCP connection, and in some cases have been shown to result in an almost 50% speedup in latency times for HTML documents with lots of images.


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