Can You Use The Server To Bundle Files & Reduce HTTP Requests?

Question

If I understand HTTP requests correctly, they come from the client side and ask the server for the various resources needed to build the website. If this is true, is there a way to use server-side scripts to bundle everything the visitor needs in order to reduce HTTP requests?

• Am I misunderstanding the way HTTP requests work?
• Is there a drawback to this?

Answer 1

There are several techniques:

• you can bundle several of your ressource in a single file, exemple, all css, javascript, etc...
• you can send multiple files in one:http pipelining
• http 1.1 reuse the connection so this reduce also the request/response time....