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Re: Multiple HTTP GETs in one TCP message

From: Peter Wullinger <peter.wullinger_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:39:27 +0100

Daniel Stenberg wrote:

[...]

>
> No. curl re-uses the connection if it can, but the curl tool does not
> use pipelining. The most recent libcurl supports HTTP pipelining but it
> would take some effort to make the command line tool take advantage from
> that.
>

Thanks for the correction, I misread the output of cURL.
I'll put this on my TODO list, but close to the bottom ;-).

From a user's perspective re-using the connection versus
pipelining means two extra round-trip times per request plus
having to wait for the output of the previous request before
the next one is issued. At least that's what I make out of it.

I think Alex needs to decide, if this is tolerable in his
particular application.

Cheers,
  Peter
Received on 2006-11-02