- <para>One setting is provided to control the pipeline depth in cases where the
- remote server is not RFC conforming or buggy (such as Squid 2.0.2).
- <literal>Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth</literal> can be a value from 0 to 5
- indicating how many outstanding requests APT should send. A value of
- zero MUST be specified if the remote host does not properly linger
- on TCP connections - otherwise data corruption will occur. Hosts which
- require this are in violation of RFC 2068.</para>
+ <para>The setting <literal>Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth</literal> can be used to
+ enabled HTTP pipeling (RFC 2616 section 8.1.2.2) which can be beneficial e.g. on
+ high-latency connections. It specifies how many requests are send in a pipeline.
+ Previous APT versions had a default of 10 for this setting, but the default value
+ is now 0 (= disabled) to avoid problems with the ever-growing amount of webservers
+ and proxies which choose to not conform to the HTTP/1.1 specification.</para>
+
+ <para><literal>Acquire::http::AllowRedirect</literal> controls if APT will follow
+ redirects, which is enabled by default.</para>