Re: HTTP Pipelining

[Jason Davies <ja...@jasondavies.com>]

On 3 Jan 2009, at 15:14, Noah Slater wrote:
>
>> whereby a client may issue multiple GET requests at once at the  
>> beginning of a
>> single TCP connection.
> ...
>> This is where I hope someone will pipe up and say this already  
>> exists :-)
>
> Why not just thread your client code? :)

That doesn't really solve the issue, which is that making separate  
HTTP requests is expensive for people on dialup :-)

Jason
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Jason Davies

www.jasondavies.com

Re: HTTP Pipelining

[Adam Kocoloski <ad...@gmail.com>]

Hi Jason, Couch does support pipelining, and takes advantage of that  
support in the replication code.  Unfortunately, you'll find that not  
all HTTP clients can pipeline. Python's httplib, for one. Best,

Adam

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On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Jason Davies <ja...@jasondavies.com> wrote:

> On 3 Jan 2009, at 15:14, Noah Slater wrote:
>>
>>> whereby a client may issue multiple GET requests at once at the  
>>> beginning of a
>>> single TCP connection.
>> ...
>>> This is where I hope someone will pipe up and say this already  
>>> exists :-)
>>
>> Why not just thread your client code? :)
>
> That doesn't really solve the issue, which is that making separate  
> HTTP requests is expensive for people on dialup :-)
>
> Jason
> --
> Jason Davies
>
> www.jasondavies.com
>