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Imagine loading this page in the 90s though! One new HTTP connection at a time, a full TCP handshake. Maybe if you were lucky you were using Netscape which woul
by NelsonMinar 5y ago
Imagine loading this page in the 90s though! One new HTTP connection at a time, a full TCP handshake. Maybe if you were lucky you were using Netscape which would load up to 4 resources at once!
- chrisco255 5y ago8MB would take all night on my 2400 baud modem.
- cyberge99 5y agoWe were hacking back then too. pipelining:true (Not really a hack, but a lesser known optimization)
- andai 5y agoI remember enabling this in Firefox. Why wasn't it the default?
- mook 5y agoI believe they had reports of popular transparent proxies that broke with it set, and the users involved typically weren't in a situation to not use those proxies.
- wolrah 5y agoThis is of course why we now have QUIC now, and why it's explicitly designed to be as opaque as practically possible to middleboxes.