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Re: Critique our use of curl; and HTTP/2, /3, multiplexing & pipelining questions

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From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 23:37:52 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 23 Feb 2023, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

>> The *can* share the same conncetion with HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 multiplexing, yes.
>
> Does this sharing happen without us doing anything, or do we need to
> use the curl share interface? I only discovered share after sending
> the original message yesterday. I then patched nbdkit to use it:

curl can only do multiplexing for transfers done within a single multi handle.

> should we expect curl + HTTP/2 to work well

Yes it should. It has been used in production for years.

> The share interface (instead of multi) _won't_ give us HTTP/2
> multiplexing?

Nope. And note that sharing the connection pool with the share interface is
not thread-safe. It is a known bug/limitation.

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