OT: Warning to Firefox users when developing web integration

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Sat, 3 Feb 2007 06:28:11 -0500):
[...]
> So it looks like if you GET or POST data differ, you're all set, right?
>
> No.
>
> On a hunch, I just opened five tabs.  The following URL's were done one
> at a time in each successive tab:
>
> http://debughost.com/index.php?a=1
> http://debughost.com/index.php?a=2
> http://debughost.com/index.php?a=3
> http://debughost.com/index.php?a=4
> http://debughost.com/index.php?b=qwerty
>
> These were run against the same 10 second sleeping index.php shown
> above. When I had all five tabs loaded, I hit "Reload All Tabs" and
> discovered it was even worse than previously indicated.  I repeated
> the test three times, and all results came back the same.
>
> When I submitted all five, the first two requests completed after 10
> seconds, back to back.  Then 10 seconds later requests three and four
> completed.  And request five came in another 10 seconds after that.
[...]

While I don't use Firefox, Opera has a configuration parameter "max
connections to a server".  With this setting at the default of "8",
if I were to submit 10 simultaneous requests to one server, it would
send only 8 at the start.  Once one ended, it would send the 9th, and
once another one ended, it would send the 10th.  (That is, it would
not wait for all 8 to complete before sending the 9th.  It would
merely wait for any of the 8 slots to open up.)

Is it possible that Firefox has a similar parameter which is set to
"2"?

What if you don't have everything take the same 10 seconds?  What if
the parameter you passed was the sleep time, and you have them set
to 5, 10, 15, 20?  Would it start the next session as soon as any of
the existing sessions completed, rather than waiting for all to
complete?

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