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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Roth, Kevin P." <KPRoth AT MarathonOil DOT com>,
   "cygwin-apps mail-list \(E-mail\)" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [setup.exe] HTTP v1.1 and persistent connections
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 08:24:04 +1100
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It's not too late at all. In fact I think we've already discussed this
in the context of resumable downloads ;].

At this point however, the key is getting the internal IO consistent.
Later on we can wrap classes around libhsync/libcurl.

If someone wants to do this now, I'm cool with that too.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roth, Kevin P." <KPRoth AT MarathonOil DOT com>
To: "cygwin-apps mail-list (E-mail)" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 8:23 AM
Subject: RE: [setup.exe] HTTP v1.1 and persistent connections


I don't know whether it's too late at this point in the
game to mention this, but libcurl already supports all the
things you've mentioned (full http/1.1 support, reusable
connections, etc) and it's licensing makes it fairly easy
to include into your code or staticly link if you need to
avoid run-time dependancies.

And it compiles nicely for native Win32 using minGW, so
you don't have to link against cygwin1.dll for any reason...

--Kevin



-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au]
Subject: Re: [setup.exe] HTTP v1.1 and persistent connections

> Have in mind that for each package to be downloaded a
> new connection is made, so the keep-alive feature does
> not make too much sense, but the slowdown I'm talking
> about is significant. I hope this will decrease the
> overall processing time.

What the HTTP object could do is have a connection pool maintained in a
static member, and new downloads can reuse connections from that pool if
they are still open.

Rob