Assume that you have made a request for a web page through your web browser to a web server. Initially the browser cache is empty. Further, the browser is configured to send HTTP requests in non-persistent mode. The web page contains text and five very small images. The minimum number of TCP connections required to display the web page completely in your browser is _______.

In non-persistent HTTP (HTTP/1.0 mode):

• Each TCP connection is used to fetch exactly one object (file/resource) and is then closed immediately after sending the response.

• The requested web page consists of:

  1. The base HTML file (containing text and references to embedded objects): 1 object $\rightarrow$ requires 1 TCP connection.

  2. Five embedded images: 5 objects $\rightarrow$ requires 5 TCP connections.

Thus, the minimum number of TCP connections required is 6.