IE 4 && HTTP/1.1 through proxy

   IE 4 has a configurable option that determines (?) whether it uses
HTTP/1.1 or 1.0 through a proxy server. I was doing some quick tests and
it
seems that a) the option makes no difference whatsoever and b) IE doesn't
take advantage of HTTP 1.1 terribly well.

        This is an example what our cache sees when Netscape, using HTTP
1.1, makes requests for a site (I ran an internal-only proxy with just one
user,
myself, and browsed through our development repository):

  Client-side persistent connection counts:

          req/
          conn count
          ---- ---------
             1 4
            11 1
            13 2
            15 1

  These are the same metrics for our standard IE 4.0x build, using the same
  site:

             1 28
             2 8
             3 6
             4 2
             5 3
             7 1
             9 1
            11 1
            14 1

  I -expected- that turning "Use HTTP 1.1 through proxy connections" to
alter
  the results significantly. However, they looked pretty much the same:

             1 52
             2 9
             3 4
             4 1
             5 1
             8 1
             9 1
            11 2

     I think that we can probably double our browsing capacity if we could
get IE to actually take advantage of HTTP/1.1. What can we do to get
there?

     Thanks in advance.

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Received on Sun Nov 21 1999 - 19:50:28 MST