[TYPO3-dev] Serving static content from a different domain

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Thomas "Thasmo" Deinhamer schrieb am 06.04.2011 12:22:
> Dmitry Dulepov wrote:
>>
>> The problem was years ago and I am not sure if it is actual. But still
>> lots of people use MSIE7, so it has to be. I tried to make a dedicated
>> host for static content for one project but found that MSIE did not do
>> requests to the same IP regardless of host names. That was strange. As
>> soon as a moved static content to another server (and set up NFS to that
>> server to allow TYPO3 to upload there), it worked ok.
> 
> That's indeed weird. The only trustworthy source I found is a test from
> Steve Sourders, claiming that IE 6 and 7 open 2 parallel downloads per
> hostname/domain, not per server/IP.
> 
> http://stevesouders.com/hpws2/hostnames.php
> 
> If I do the test with the IE7 compatibility mode in IE8,
> the page loads in about 3 seconds, opening 4 parallel connections.

Another good source is:

http://www.browserscope.org/

Under "Networks" it compares the amount of connections per Hostname per
Browser and how it behaves in the different versions.

IE6 = 2
IE7 = 2
IE8 = 6
IE9 = 6

Cheers,
Ernesto