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Re: Suggestion: http request bundle

From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:12:07 +1100
Message-ID: <454B2407.7080008@lachy.id.au>
To: Doug Whitehead <Doug.Whitehead@nasd.com>
CC: www-html@w3.org

Doug Whitehead wrote:
> Enhance the http protocol to create a request bundle, with a zip 
> response to minimize the chatter between the browser and a server.

Discussion of HTTP is off topic for www-html.

>> From the web user's perspective website load times could be 
>> accelerated if N requests for resources could be bundled into 
>> a single request from a webserver.

This is already covered by gzip or deflate compression and HTTP Pipelining.

-- 
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/ 
Received on Friday, 3 November 2006 11:12:24 GMT
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