Hi folks,
just thought I'd butt in with a quick thought re serialised requests - HTTP 1.1 allows a browser to reuse a socket connection (which makes a big difference to performance so dont lightly turn it off!). Browsers must then maintain a pool of sockets and can only reuse a socket when a response is returned (I think) - so maybe Mozilla is configured to use too few sockets, or doenst do this at all - or has some bug in attempting to do it.
apropos of all this, maybe there needs to be some ant tests for performing deadlock and scalability tests. If you are doing such tests could you consider formalising them.
Regards
Rob Atkinson
Social Change Online