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 and Range Requests
Tested two common situations
- First Time Retrieval (Filling the cache)
- Subsequent Retrievals (Cache validation)
Have not investigated benefits of HTTP/1.1 caching facilities or Transfer-Encoding (e.g. gzip compression)
This work is still very much "Work In Progress"