On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 06:54:24AM -0400, Chris Brenton spoke thusly: (snip lots) >SMTP is not too bad as its pretty efficient. I think DJB would disagree with you ? :-) >HTTP is the one that kills you as it spawns a unique concurrent session >for every object on a web page you try to view. For example a user >visiting www.netfilter.org generates 6 unique sessions to view the >homepage. Microsoft's homepage is 10 sessions, Security Focus is 70, you >get the idea. If I understand you correctly, that is with HTTP/1.0 which opens up a unique tuple per object, HTTP/1.1 uses a single tuple only. (snip again)