how many sockets are open to the web server?

[igowi]

When accessing to one server, the web browser open one socket to the server?
Let's say

http://www.msn.com

http://www.msn.com/business.html

http://www.msn.com/music.html

When I access these pages by the web browser, I open three sockets to the server or just open one socket to the server?

 

[feidACT]

HI,

I have problems with IE on A paticular win2K machine. http 1.1 does specify that any web client should at maximum open 2 socket connections to a web server, but my IE6 on WIN2K opens numerous socket connections to Apache(depend on how many embeded objects are there in that web page), and worse, IE6 doesn't send back Apache FIN/ACK to gracefully shutdown the socket connection resulting in Apache waiting until time-out of those sockets. This is really bad for the web server because there would be a number of child processes running for nothing. Anyone has any idea what's wrong with this particular WIN2K or IE6?