A lot of blogging and follow-up discussion ensued with the announcement that IE8 supports six connections per host. The blogs I saw:IE8: The Performance ImplicationsIE8 speeds things upIE8: 6 Connections Per HostIE 8 and PerformanceTesting IE8.s Connection ParallelismIE 8 Connection Parallelism IssuesIt’s likely that Firefox 3 will support 6 connections per server in an upcoming beta release, which means more discussion is expected. I wanted to pull all the facts into one place and make several points that I think are important and interesting. Specifically I talk about:the HTTP/1.1 RFC...