A huge number of connections might be problematic for a 2.0 intermediary/proxy talking to an HTTP 1.1 server. Not sure that should be dealt with in the spec. Peter On Oct 30, 2013, at 1:50 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 2013-10-30 09:31, S Moonesamy wrote: >> Hi Julian, >> At 09:03 29-10-2013, Julian Reschke wrote: >>> I have trouble parsing this comment. Do you see an issue here? >> >> I read the text again (Section 6.4). It is difficult to say what is >> deemed abusive. You could get around that with, for example: >> >> A client SHOULD limit the number of simultaneous open connections >> that it maintains to a given server as each connection consumes >> server resources. >> >> Please note that I used some text from the third paragraph of that section. > > Well, there are more reasons for limiting the connection; that's why we have a separate paragraph about it. Just moving one of them up here doesn't look like an improvement to me. > > Best regards, Julian >