原文:A client that supports persistent connections MAY "pipeline" its requests (i.e., send multiple requests without waiting for each response). A server MUST send its responses to those requests in the same order that the requests were received.
至于标准为什么这么设定,我们可以大概推测一个原因:由于 HTTP/1.1 是个文本协议,同时返回的内容也并不能区分对应于哪个发送的请求,所以顺序必须维持一致。比如你向服务器发送了两个请求 GET /query?q=A 和 GET /query?q=B,服务器返回了两个结果,浏览器是没有办法根据响应结果来判断响应对应于哪一个请求的。