Network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: Difference between revisions
From MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Jump to navigationJump to search
m (Reverted edits by XXRazor (Talk); changed back to last version by Alice Wyman) |
SteveChapel (talk | contribs) (→Background: clarification and Wikipedia link) |
||
Line 2: | Line 2: | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol HTTP] is the application-layer protocol that most web pages are transferred with. In HTTP 1.1, multiple requests can be sent before any responses are received. This is known as pipelining. This preference specifies the maximum number of requests to pipeline at once. | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol HTTP] is the application-layer protocol that most web pages are transferred with. In HTTP 1.1, multiple requests can be sent before any responses are received. This is known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining pipelining]. This preference specifies the maximum number of requests to pipeline at once when pipelining is enabled. | ||
==Possible values and their effects== | ==Possible values and their effects== |
Revision as of 13:10, 24 May 2008
Background
HTTP is the application-layer protocol that most web pages are transferred with. In HTTP 1.1, multiple requests can be sent before any responses are received. This is known as pipelining. This preference specifies the maximum number of requests to pipeline at once when pipelining is enabled.
Possible values and their effects
Any integer from 1 to 8 inclusive determines the maximum number of requests to pipeline at once. A value of 1 disables pipelining. (Default: 4)
Caveats
- network.http.pipelining or network.http.proxy.pipelining (depending on whether you use a proxy) must be set to true for this preference to take effect.
Recommended settings
Higher values will cause a delay before the first request completes but will make the last request complete sooner. Higher values will also cause more of a delay if a connection fails.
First checked in
Has an effect in
- Netscape (all versions since 6.1)
- Mozilla Suite (all versions since 0.9)
- Mozilla Phoenix (all versions)
- Mozilla Firebird (all versions)
- Mozilla Firefox (all versions)
- SeaMonkey (all versions)
- Camino (all versions)
- Minimo (all versions)