Ben Higginbottom wrote:
On 05/01/05 05:07 AM, Fred A. Miller
wrote: For broadband users.........VERY nice improvement!
Fred
http://thelinuxbox.org/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1104676550&archive=&start_from=&ucat=3&
It maybe very nice, but its rather impolite to the person who's webserver your visiting, not to mention anyone else trying to visit the site. By default Apache is set to cutoff after 100 requests for a page, with you alone making 30 at once your not only causing their webserver to take one heck of a hit you could also be blocking other visitors.
The big sites should be able to handle this without a problem, so long as everyone doesnt start doing it, but its still very, very impolite.
I run many websites and I don't see it as being a problem. Apache would anyway split a page request into its constituent parts and serve them up as individual requests, all this is doing is getting the client to do it instead. To a certain extent, it will increase the load but that should only be a problem for a few servers who are running at a heavy load and couldn't handle any increase. cheers jalal -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E