If connections are your concern why dont you use keep-alive connections on your site? Modern UAs and webservers can download an HTML page with CSS and all images in one connection:
Because KeepAlive hurts performance on heavily-loaded servers, and because there are lots of exploits running about specifically used to tie up webservers that use KeepAlive by leaving each socket in a TIME_WAIT state. I've had to use the TARPIT module in iptables to work around some of it over the last two weeks myself (works great!). With Apache Benchmark pounding various pages on the same physical box, with KeepAlive enabled, performance drops by about 80% (we're behind Squid as an http accellerator anyway, so KeepAlive on the Apache side is moot). David A. Desrosiers desrod@gnu-designs.com http://gnu-designs.com