Re: Trying to simulate browser behavior.

[Robert I. <cor...@gm...>]

Hi Pranav,

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Pranav Desai <pra...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to simulate a browser behavior for accessing a front page
> (e.g. www.cnn.com). From traces I see that a few requests go over the
> same TCP connections (persistence) and in general there are a few TCP
> connections made for completely fetching the whole front page.


Y can see also the behavior of major browsers like IE-6, IE-7, FF-2, FF-3
amd Safari-3.1

>
>
> I am trying to use FRESH_CONNECT to create another TCP connections.
> What I was expecting was that all URLs before the FRESH_CONNECT tag
> would go on the same connection and after the URL that has the
> FRESH_CONNECT tag a new connection would start. So I was expecting to
> see 2 GETs for the first TCP connection, 6 on the second TCP conn. and
> the rest on the third one. Basically, I was thinking of the URL list
> as sequential with conn. close in between.
>
> But that doesn't seem to be case. There are 3 TCP connections, but one
> has most of the GETs and the other 2 have one req. each (for which the
> tag is specified).
>
> So it seems like curl-loader loads all the URLS with it associated
> tags and then access them randomly. Is that correct? If so, is there a
> way to have a behavior similar to the one described above.
>

FRESH_CONNECT means that in the next cycle the connection should be closed
and re-established.

What is the behavior, that you see with major browsers mentioned?


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