Pascal Schmidt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 PS> Hi Roy! :-)

 RJT> How long you stay?  I think not.  There are a lot of people who seem 
 RJT> to have a misconception about this,  once you load a web page,  
 RJT> there is no longer any connection between you and the server,  even 
 RJT> though the perception is that "you're still at that site" as the 
 RJT> stuff is still on your screen.  No actual connection is maintained,  
 RJT> until you do something else.

 PS> Modern web browser DO keep the connection alive, at least if the
 PS> web server supports HTTP 1.1. It's more efficient than making a new
 PS> connection for each picture on the page or each new page from one
 PS> site.

I could see it for a bunch of stuff that was all related to one page (all
those images...),  but beyond that?  I suppose I'm going to have to look
into the spec,  one of these days.

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