Many, if not all modern browsers are not using pipelined HTTP requests. In theory pipelining should speed up requests by reducing the number of round trip times required to fetch a website. Accor...

First, I have ServiceStack as my server which provides RESTful HTTP API. Here is an example. public void GET(XXXXXRequest request) { System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000); } Then I use System.Ne...

The HTTP client built into Node.js doesn't seem to support pipelining requests. However, it occurred to me that it may be possible to create an Agent that sets up pipelining in the background. Ther...

I am trying to understand what are the HTTP pipelining and HTTP keep-alive connections, and trying to establish a connection between these two topics and Server Sent events technology. As far as I...

WWDC 2012 session 706 - Networking Best Practices explains HTTP Pipelining. By default its disabled on iOS In the talk its described it as a huge performance win. Why might you not want to use...

Thanks to Google and Stack Overflow, I think I understood the difference between regular HTTP pipelining and HTTP multiplexing (e.g., with SPDY), so I made the diagram below to show the differences...