Re: Possible New Optional Field in Heade
Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Wed, 10 May 1995 12:36:23 PDT
> SHOULD this be on www-talk?
If "mxb" and "mxs" are in the draft of the HTTP spec, it's legitimate
for http-wg to discuss their utility.
As for a client-supplied link-speed estimate, I'll just point out that
this is something that the server may be in a better position to
estimate than the client. First, it may be the server's end of the
connection is the performance bottleneck (the client is on a T1 and
the server is at the end of a 14.4). Since server load is often the
determining factor in response time, the server is usually in a better
position to judge 'how fast' the request will be satisfied. The server
may have more history of the response time for other clients from the
same domain.