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Re: performance issue (single Vs. multi interface)

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:18:18 +0100 (MET)

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, [ISO-8859-2] Petr J?za wrote:

> I would like to ask you if is there any performance difference in the
> following cases: 1) single interface that sends more than 1 file as
> multipart data (by CURLOPT_HTTPPOST) 2) multi interface that sends more
> than 1 file (by POST method via HTTP or by CURLOPT_HTTPPOST too)

If you're only sending data to one server at a time, and if there's nothing
else than performace that's troubling you, then I'd recommend the easy
interface.

> In other words I would like to ask you if is there any optimalization for
> sending more files in single interface (whether files are sent
> simultaneously?) or files are sent one by one?

If you want to send serveral files simultaneously, then there's only the
multi interface that can do that unless you plan to use threads.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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Received on 2003-01-16