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Subject: Re: [boost] [http] Formal review of Boost.Http
From: Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira (vini.ipsmaker_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-08-15 22:35:23


2015-08-08 14:19 GMT-03:00 Darren Cook <darren_at_[hidden]>:

> (Q. for Vinícius)
> Using the diagram at http://stackoverflow.com/q/10480122/841830, does
> the above mean that Boost.Http only supports the left-most diagram (e.g.
> a browser client cannot request image.png until it has received the
> entirety of index.html)?
>

The browser can issue all requests at once, but thanks to HTTP 1.1 head of
line blocking, it'll only get the response to the second request once the
response to the first request has being generated. At least you decrease
the latency.

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