Normally during the beta cycle no new major features will be added. The full release of Apache 1.2 is expected in February. It appears that the Lycos indexer cannot index Apache 1.2 sites. Initially these were made one at a time. Then some browsers implemented a scheme where they would make a number of connections in parallel.
Browsers typically make four connections in parallel.
While this speeded up end-users' perceptions of download time, it did not benefit the underlying network since exactly the same amount of network traffic was generated, and the number of parallel connections for the images could actually increase the load on servers. Another way of speeding up transfers was needed, and the first version of keep alives were developed. These eliminated the overhead of having to establish a separate connection for each request. The use of persistent connections makes downloads faster than doing them one at a time, and is better for the network and the server. This paper shows that the fastest and most efficient way to implement a browser is to use pipelining .