Heuristic Connection Management for Improving Server-Side Performance on the Web

Authors:
Yoon-Jung Rhee;Nam-Sup Park;Tai-Yun Kim
Affiliations:
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Venue:
OHS-6/SC-2 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop and 2nd International Workshop on Open Hypertext Systems and Structural Computing
Year:
2000

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Abstract

HTTP/1.1 standard reduces latencies and overhead from closing and re-establishing connections by supporting persistent connections as a default, which encourage multiple transfers of objects over one connection. HTTP/1.1, however, does not define explicitly connection-closing time but specifies a certain fixed holding time model. This model may induce wasting server's resource when server maintains connection with the idle-state client that requests no data for a certain time. This paper proposes the mechanism of a heuristic connection management supported by the client-side under persistent HTTP, in addition to HTTP/1.1's fixed holding time model on server-side. The client exploits the tag information within transferred HTML page so that decides connection-closing time. As a result, the mechanism allows server to use server's resource more efficiently without server's efforts.