Purpose of this Evaluation
Evaluate the gains of using HTTP/1.1 for basic web transport
Does HTTP/1.1 fulfill its design goals?
For the network? (network traffic/behavior)
For the end user? (perceived speed)
Test Persistent Connections, Pipelining, Buffering
Test two common situations
First Time Retrieval (Filling the cache)
Subsequent Retrievals (Cache validation)
Some investigation of HTTP/1.1 Content-Encoding (e.g. gzip compression)
Preliminary investigation of CSS1 and PNG's effects on network traffic
No investigation of HTTP/1.1 caching
Jim Gettys
