Re: Http overhead

dillon@hns.com
Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:47:08 -0500


     You have an HTTP response header (around 250 bytes) which goes
in its own segment and then all succeeding data is sent in TCP segments as a
stream of bytes.
No overhead other than the TCP/IP overhead.

     The latest standard (HTTP 1.1) has provisions for compression and "chunked"
transfers
which change this, but I haven't seen these used in any real-world situations
yet.

     Doug...................