Aynchronous web server calls in Silverlight and maximum HTTP connections

Question

I\'ve read that Silverlight 2.0 imposes by design an asynchronous model when communicating with the web server. I haven\'t had a chance to experiment with Silverlight, but I

Answer 1

Firstly the Machine.config file would not be used as the Silverlight control is sandboxed with its own version of the CoreCLR.

I believe that the Silverlight control actually makes use of the underlying browser to make the asynchronous HTTP requests. This is most likely the case considering how the Silverlight control can't gain access to SOAP fault information as the SOAP specification requires that the server returns an HTTP 500 response code and the Silverlight control doesn't get that from the browser hosting the control.

This post here serves to confirm this.

As to the limit of concurrent HTTP connections, I believe IE5 and later limit the number of connections to the same site based on HTTP protocol version - HTTP/1.0 it limits to 4 connections and HTTP/1.1 to 3 connections. Most of the time the web server will limit the number of connections to 2 per client, queueing or discarding the remainder.