Hi guys,

A site visitor is usually allowed 2 simultaneous connections to a server at a given time be it to view a page or to download files.

How can we set it to unlimited so that a user can create as many connections as he wants?

How about you start by giving us an idea of what software you are using to run your web server, and how you've noticed this problem.

AFAIK this is a restriction of HTTP/1.1 and is implemented on the client side so as such not to over load the main server so as such I don't believe there is a way to override this on the server side

Rus

Thanks Rus, knowledgable as always....;-)

I am running Apache,Cpanel.

Is it possible for a server to try to wget 10 files from my server simultaneously?

It is, but why? Just one or two should saturate the connection on one end or the other. More requests can be used to 'push' others aside on an already saturated connection, but I don't usually see the server side encouraging that.

Originally posted by jvds
AFAIK this is a restriction of HTTP/1.1 and is implemented on the client side so as such not to over load the main server so as such I don't believe there is a way to override this on the server side

I don't believe anything in the HTTP 1.1 specification restricts how many connections a client will make to the server simultaneously. Client implementations may do that - Netscape used to default to four, for example.

The existence of Keepalive pipelining doesn't preclude parallel access as well.

Kevin

As Rus said, it is client side...you can adjust in Mozilla with:

user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 128);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 24);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 12);

IE via:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282402

Browsers aside, if we are talking about wgetting in shell, is there no limit to that?
Say I have one user who wgets some things from my server. is he able to make 100 connections at once?