HTTP Pipelining: A security risk without real performance benefits
Everyone wants web sites and applications to load faster, and there’s no shortage of folks out there looking for ways to do just that. But all that glitters is not gold, and not all acceleration tech...
Published Apr 02, 2009
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NimbostratusIt's strange how you are ending up in conclusions without supplying any benchmarking data in the article.
In the era of cloud computing, multiprocessing and advanced caching it seems quite unlike that there is no performance gain when submitting several requests without waiting for each response.
From my benchmarking i am getting at least 3x better performance.
Concerning the argument that pipelining can cause dos attacks and resource consumption, it is the responsibility of the server to deal with the requests and secure it's resources.
In my opinion the article is sloppyly written, missing some research behind the issue