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Load Testing Back to Basics: TCP Connection Failures
Load Tester is a web site load testing tool, and as such we deal primarily with the most popular Internet communications protocol: the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, which controls the request and transmission of web pages between browser clients and web servers. HTTP is based on a lower-level protocol known as the Transmission Control Protocol, or TCP. For the most part, TCP works in the background, but its proper function is critical to your website, and problems at the TCP level can show up in many different ways during a load test. … Continue reading »