Latency problem with one browser

Piotr Sikora piotr.sikora at frickle.com
Sun Mar 4 20:35:36 UTC 2012


Hi Maxim,

> I believe that the workaround is too pessimistic even for affected
> versions as it disables keepalive completely, while the problem
> will only manifest itself if there are POSTs.
>
> If someone will find itself affected and the cost of disabled
> keepalive is acceptable - it will be still possible to explicitly
> enable the workaround.

I'm aware of this and I still respectfully disagree with you, because 
changing the default is basically trading correctness for performance.

> Restricting the workaround to something like "Safari on Mac OS X"
> would be fine too, though it's mostly orthogonal to changing the
> default.

Agreed, but it makes changing the default much less appealing.

Best regards,
Piotr Sikora < piotr.sikora at frickle.com >



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