OT: limit number of connections from browser to my server?

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On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 10:35:28 AM UTC-7, Peter Otten wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> > This is not Python specific, though I'm turning to Python to do some
> > experimentation and to try to prototype a solution.
> > 
> > Is there any way to limit the number of connections a browser uses to
> > download a web page?  Browser writers seems to assume that all https
> > servers are massively parallel server farms with hardware crypto
> > support.
> > 
> > So, when a browser wants to load a page that has the main html file, a
> > css file, a javascript library or two, and a few icons and background
> > bitmaps, they browser opens up a half-dozen SSL connections in
> > parallel.
> 
> [brainstorm-mode on]
> 
> I think HTTP/2 allows multiple requests over a single TCP connection.

HTTP/1.1 already supports it, but most browsers have it disabled by default.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining