>The primary point he makes is that the design of many HTML documents is such >that they do not benefit from the Van Jacobsen Slow Start >performance-enhancement procedures. Van Jacobsen Slow Start is beneficial >to the transmission of large files (not to the transmission of many small >files that are typical of most HTTP sessions -- text with several small >graphics). There is a new HTTP specification, HTTP-ng, which addresses these problems. There is a fascinating analysis of performance problems with the current HTTP-1.0 specification, and how HTTP-ng will solve them. You can find the proposed specification at http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/HTTP-NG/Overview.html -Dan .----------------------------------------------. |Dan Hollis -- Pharmacy Computer Services, Inc.| [log in to unmask] - (503)476-3139| `----------------------------------------------'