Look at the content length.  Your file is very short which is what Pound is saying.  If the server on the other side is saying that the content is very long, but it really isn't, then Pound probably has to wait for the end of file to know how short the file is.  This could easily cause major problems with throughput.

Andrew Hughes wrote:

Fast HTTP response header: Slow HTTP response header (helloworld.html):
    ...  
  • Content-Length:
    • 24433
  • Date:
    • Thu, 08 Sep 2005 02:25:17 GMT
    ...
  • Content-Length:
    • 132
  • Date:
    • Thu, 08 Sep 2005 02:33:21 GMT
 



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Ted Dunning
Chief Scientist
Veoh Networks